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1867. 


CHICAGO: 

E.   B.    MYERS   &   CHANDLER, 

LAW    BOOKSELLERS    AND    PUBLISHERS, 

87  WASHINGTON  STEEET. 
1867. 


DEACCESSIONED  BY 

CHICAGO  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 

PRINTED  COLLECTIONS 


CITY    CHARTER, 


AN   ACT 

Supplementary  to  "An  Act  to  reduce  the  Charter  of  the  City  of  Chicago,  and  the 
several  acts  amendatory  thereof,  into  one  act,  and  to  revise  the  same,"  approved 
February  13,  1863,  and  the  several  amendments  thereto. 

Be  it  enacted  hy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois^  represented  in  the 
General  Assembly : 

CHAPTEE    I. 

ASSESSMENTS,    TAX   COMMISSIONEK,    ETC. 

Section  1.  The  mayor  shall,  on  the  first  Monday  of  March, 
A.  D.  1867,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  practicable,  and  quadrennially 
thereafter,  appoint,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the 
common  council,  a  commissioner  of  taxes,  who  shall  have  been  a 
resident  of  the  city  for  three  years,  and  a  freeholder  in  said  city 
for  at  least  one  year  prior  to  his  appointment.  Said  commissioner 
shall  take  and  subscribe  an  oath  of  office,  and  shall  enter  into  a 
bond  in  the  penal  sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars,  with  two  or  more 
sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  mayor,  for  the  faithful  performance 
of  his  official  duties.  The  salary  of  said  commissioner  shall  be 
annually  fixed  in  the  appropriation  bill  by  the  common  council. 

Sec.  2.  The  commissioner  first  appointed  shall,  immediately 
after  his  qualification,  proceed  to  divide  said  city  into  as  many  and 
such  convenient  assessment  districts,  not  exceeding  eight,  as  he 
shall  deem  expedient,  which  shall  be  known  and  designated 
numerically :  Provided,  however,  in  making  such  districts,  regard 
shall  be  had  to  the  natural  divisions  of  said  city :  And  provided 
further,  That  such  division  of  said  city  into  districts  shall  be  sub- 


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mitted  to,  and  be  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  common  council : 
Aiid  irrovided  farther^  That  such  districting  shall  only  be  subject 
to  modification  or  alteration  by  a  vote  of  three-fourths  of  all  the 
aldermen  elected,  such  vote  to  be  taken  by  ayes  and  nays,  and 
entered  on  the  records  of  the  council. 

Sec.  3.  Said  commissioner  shall  keep  in  suitable  books  to  be 
provided  for  that  purpose,  a  record  of  all  information  which  he 
may  be  able  to  obtain  in  respect  to  the  taxable  property  and  per- 
sons liable  to  taxation  in  said  city,  and  all  changes  in  the  owner- 
ship of  real  estate  in  said  [city],  o^  which  he  can  obtain  informa- 
tion. He  shall  have  power  to  appoint  suitable  persons  as  clerks 
in  said  office,  the  number  to  be  limited  and  salaries  fixed  by  the 
common  council,  whose  business  it  shall  be,  under  his  direction,  to 
make  and  from  time  to  time  amend  and  correct  the  record  of  the 
property  in  the  office  of  said  commissioner,  both  as  regards  the 
ownership  and  extent  of  such  property,  by  a  daily  examination  of 
maps  and  conveyances  which  shall  be  left  for  record  in  the  office 
of  the  recorder  of  Cook  county,  and  also  all  maps  in  the  office  of 
the  board  of  public  works,  which  examination  he  shall  be  entitled 
to  make  free  of  all  charges  whatsoever  during  office  hours. 

Sec.  4.  The, common  council  shall,  on  the  first  Monday  of 
March,  A.  D.  1867,  or  within  thirty  days  from  said  time,  and 
biennially  thereafter,  appoint  by  ballot  one  assessor  for  each  division 
of  the  city,  who  shall  be  a  freeholder  in  said  division,  and  have 
resided  therein  at  least  one  year  preceding  his  appointment.  The 
said  commissioner  of  taxes,  and  the  said  assessors,  shall  constitute 
the  "Board  of  Assessors,"  the  said  commissioner  being  ex  officio 
president  of  said  board. 

Sec.  5.  Said  assessors,  so  appointed,  shall  take  and  subscribe 
an  oath  of  office,  and  shall  enter  into  bonds  in  the  penal  sum  of 
five  thousand  dollars,  with  two  or  more  sureties,  to  be  approved 
by  the  mayor,  for  the  faithful  performance^  of  their  duties.  The 
commissioner  of  taxes  is  hereby  authorized  to  administer  any  oath 
required  to  be  taken  b}^  this  act  or  by  any  law  of  this  State.  The 
said  assessors  are  also  hereby  severally  authorized  to  administer 


1.]  ASSESSMENTS,    TAX    COMMISSIONER,    ETC.  5 

any  oath  required  by  this  act,   or  by  the  revenue  or  assessment 
laws  of  the  State. 

Sec.  6.  The  assessors  shall,  as  soon  after  the  first  Monday  of 
May  in  each  year,  as  may  be,  under  the  direction  and  supervision 
of  the  commissioner  of  taxes,  proceed  to  examine  and  determine 
the  valuation  of  the  taxable  real  and  personal  estate  in  their 
respective  districts.  Schedules  of  all  the  taxable  real  estate  in  the 
several  districts  shall  be  furnished  by  the  commissioner  of  taxes 
to  aid  them  in  the  performance  of  their  duties,  upon  which  they 
shall  enter  their  valuations.  Said  commissioner,  in  making  out 
said  schedules,  may  take  as  his  guide  the  assessment  list  or  collec- 
tor's book  of  the  previous  year,  and  the  list  of  subsequent  con- 
.veyances,  and  such  other  data  as  he  can  find  to  make  them  as 
nearly  correct  as  possible.  Said  appraisal,  together  with  their 
appraisal  of  all  the  personal  estate  taxable  in  said  city,  shall  be 
completed  and  filed  in  the  ofiice  of  said  commissioner  on  or  before 
the  first  Monday  of  August,  in  each  year,  unless  further  time  shall 
be  granted  by  the  common  council. 

Sec.  7.  Said  assessors  shall  not  in  any  case  assess  taxable  real 
or  personal  estate  any  less  than  its  real  or  true  value,  as  defined 
by  the  State  revenue  laws.  All  personal  property  of  every  nature 
and  kind,  having  its  actual  situs  within  the  city,  shall  be  assessed 
for  municipal  purposes,  in  the  district  where  the  same  may  be 
found,  whether  the  owner  resides  in  the  city  or  not ;  this  provision 
to  extend  to  and  include  the  proportion  of  rolling  stock  of  all  such 
railroad  or  railway  companies  as  run  cars  or  trains  into  the  city, 
by  lease  of  road-bed  or  track,  or  by  contract  or  arrangement  with 
any  other  railway  company  or  corporation.  Such  proportion  to 
be  ascertained  and  apportioned  in  accordance  with  the  statutes 
regulating  the  assessment  of  the  rolling  stock  of  such  companies 
the  same  as  though  such  company  owned  the  track  or  road-bed. 

Sec.  8.  The  assessors  of  the  several  districts  shall  be  furnished 
with  the  necessary  blanks  to'  take  a  list  of  taxable  property  in 
their  several  divisions,  by  the  commissioner  of  taxes.  They  shall 
call  at  the  office,  place  of  business  or  residence  of  each  person 
required  by  law  to  list 'his  property,  and  at  the  ofiice  of  every 


6  CITY    CHARTER.  [CH. 

incorporated  company,  and  require  such,  person,  or  tlie  president, 
cashier,  treasurer,  secretarj^  or  other  officer  of  such  incorporated 
company,  to  make  a  correct  statement  of  his  or  its  taxable  prop- 
erty, in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  law ;  and  the  person' 
listing  the  property  shall  enter  a  true  and  correct  statement  of  such 
property,  and  the  value  thereof,  in  a  written  or  printed  blank, 
prepared  for  that  purpose,  which  statement,  after  being  filled  out, 
shall  be  signed  by  the  person  listing  the  propert}^,  and  shall  also 
be  verified-  by  his  oath  or  affidavit. 

Sec.  9.  In  every  case  wher«  any  person  shall  neglect  or  refuse 
to  make  out  and  deliver  to  the  assessor  the  statement  required  by 
this  act,  or  by  the  revenue  laws  of  the  State,  verified  by  oath  or 
affirmation,  in  addition  to  the  penalties  in  such  case  provided  by . 
such  laws,  the  common  ■  council  of  said  city  may  provide  such 
other  and  further  penalties  as  will  secure  compliance. 

Sec  10.  In  every  case  where  any  person  or  officer  of  a  corpo- 
ration, whose  duty  it  is  to  list  any  personal  property,  moneys, 
credits,  investments  in  bonds,  stocks,  joint  stock  companies  or 
otherwise,  or  any  property  of  a  personal  nature  liable  to  assess- 
ment for  taxation,  shall  have  refused  or  neglected  to  list  the  same 
when  called  on  for  that  purpose  by  the  assessor,  or  to  take  and 
subscribe  an  oath  or  affirmation  in  regard  to  the  truth  of  his  state- 
ment, required  to  be  made  as  aforesaid,  or  by  any  law  of  the 
State,  when  required  by  the  assessor,  the  assessor  shall  enter  oppo- 
site the  name  of  such  person  in  an  appropriate  column,  "  refused 
to  list,"  or  "  refused  to  swear ;  "  and  in  every  case  where  any  per- 
son required  to  list  property  for  taxation  shall  have  been  absent, 
or  unable  from  sickness  to  list  the  same,  the  assessor  shall  enter 
opposite  the  name  of  such  person,  in  an  appropriate  column,  the 
word  "absent "  or  "sick."  When  the  assessors  shall  have  com- 
pleted the  assessment  of  the  taxable  real  and  personal  estate  of 
said  city,  they  shall  file  the  same  in  the  office  of  the  commissioner 
of  taxes,  and  fix  u23on  a  day  for  the  hearing  of  objections  thereto, 
and  the  said  commissioner  shall  give  notice  of  the  time  and  place 
of  such  hearing  by  six  days'  publication  thereof  in  the  corpora- 
tion newspaper.     Any  person  feeling  aggrieved  by  the  assessment 


1.]  ASSESSMENTS,    TAX    COMMISSIONER,    ETC.  7 

of  his  property,  may  appear  at  the  time  specified  and  make  his 
objections. 

Sec.  11.  The  said  assessors,  together  with  the  commissioner  of 
taxes,  constituting  the  board  of  assessors,  shall  meet  ^t  the  time 
and  place  designated,  to  revise  and  correct  their  assessments. 
They  shall  hear  and  consider  all  objections  which  may  be  made, 
and  shall  have  power  to  make  all  proper  corrections  and  supply 
omissions  in  the  assessments,  and,  for  the  purpose  of  equalizing  the 
same,  to  alter,  add  to,  take  from,  and  otherwise  correct  and  revise 
the  same.  They  shall  continue  in  session  during  the  business 
hours  of  each  and  every  secular  day  for  the  period  of  twenty  suc- 
cessive days.  Thereafter  no  change,  amendment,  abatement  or 
alteration  shall  be  made,  nor  shall  any  tax  or  portion  thereof  be 
•tefunded.     A  majority  of  said  board  shall  constitute  a  quorum. 

Sec.  12.  When  said  revision  shall  have  been  completed,  the 
commissioner  of  taxes  shall  enter,  in  one  or  more  books  to  be 
prepared  for  that  purpose,  a  complete  list  of  all  the  taxable  real 
estate  in  said  city,  according  to  the  schedules  as  returned  and 
revised  by  the  board  of  assessors,  showing,  in  a  proper  column,  to 
be  ruled  for  that  purpose,  the  names  of  the  different  owners,  so  far 
as  known  to  the  said  assessors ;  and  in  another  column,  the 
amount  of  the  valuation  made  in  each  case.  Said  books  shall  also 
have  ruled  therein  an  appropriate  column  for  extending  or  insert- 
ing the  amount  of  the  tax  which  may  be  levied  on  said  property. 
Said  book  or  books  shall  together  constitute  the  tax  list  of  real 
estate  for  such  year.  -  The  commissioner  of  taxes  shall  also  enter 
in  another  book  or  books,  to  be  prepared  for  that  purpose,  a  com- 
plete list  of  the  taxable  personal  estate  in  said^  city,  as  returned 
and  revised  by  the  assessors,  showing  in  the  proper  column  the 
names  of  the  different  persons  whose  property  has  been  assessed, 
and  in  other  columns  the  valuations  made  by  the  assessors.  Said 
books  shall  also  have  ruled  therein,  an  appropriate  column  for 
extending  or  inserting  the  taxes  which  may  be  levied  thereon. 
Said  book  shall  constitute  the  personal  tax  list  for  such  year. 
The  commissioner  of  taxes  shall  add  up  the  valuations  in  each 
list,  and  the  aggregate  amount  thereof  shall  be  entered  by  him  at 
the  foot  of  the  appropriate  column  on  the  last  page.     When  said 


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tax  lists  shall  have  been  so  completed,  they  shall  be  signed  by 
said  assessors,  or  a  maj6rity  of  them,  and  the  tax  commissioner, 
after  having  been  ascertained  to  be  correct,  and  left  in  the  custody 
of  said  commissioner  of  taxes,  and  shall  constitute  the  only  record 
to  be  referred  to  in  any  case  in  which  their  said  assessments  may 
be  drawn  in  question. 

Sec.  13.  The  common  council  shall  thereupon,  by  an  ordi- 
nance or  resolution,  levy  such  sum  or  snms  of  money  as  may  be 
sufficient  for  the  several  purposes  for  which  taxes  are  herein 
authorized  to  be  levied,  (not  exceeding  the  authorized  per  cent- 
age,)  particularly  specifying  the  purposes  for  which  the  same  are 
levied. 

Sec.  14  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  commissioner  of  taxes  to 
estimate  the  several  taxes  levied  by  the  common  council,  comput- 
ing them  together  as  one  tax,  and  to  insert  the  total  amount  of 
such  taxes  in  the  appropriate  column  of  the  several  tax  lists,  oppo- 
site to  the  person  or  property  chargeable  therewith.  When  com- 
pleted, the  tax  commissioner  shall  attach  to  each  of  said  tax  lists  a 
warrant,  to  be  signed  by  the  mayor,  comptroller  and  tax  commis- 
sioner, and  the  city  clerk  shall  affix  the  corporate  seal  and  coun- 
tersign the  same,  directed  to  the  collector,  commanding  him  to 
make,  levy  and  collect,  as  the  taxes  for  such  year,  the  several 
sums  of  money  set  opposite  to  the  real  and  personal  estate,  or 
persons  in  said  tax  lists  mentioned  or  described,  of  the  goods  and 
chattels  of  the  respective  owners  of  such  real  and  personal  estate ; 
which  warrants  shall  also  designate  the  names  and  rates  of  the 
several  taxes  included  therein. 

■  Sec.  15.  Said  tax  lists,  with  the  warrants  attached,  shall  be 
delivered  to  the  collector  by  the  comptroller,  as  heretofore,  who 
shall  in  all  things  proceed  as  now  required  by  law. 

Sec.  16.  Every  person  who  shall  be  guilty  of  willful  and  cor- 
rupt false  swearing  or  aifirming  in  taking  any  oath  required  by 
this  chapter,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  willful  and  corrupt  perjury, 
and  shall  be  punished  accordingly. 


I.]  ASSESSMENTS,    TAX    COMMISSIONER,  ETC. 


Sec.  17.  The  common  council,  in  order  to  remedy  any  unfore- 
seen defect  or  omission,  shall  have  the  power  at  any  time,  upon 
the  recommendation  of  the  commissioner  of  taxes,  by  ordinai^ce,  to 
so  modify  or  add  to  the  requirements  of  this  chapter,  as  to  perfect 
the  assessments  to  be  made  in  said  city  for  municipal  purposes  : 
Provided^  however^  that  no  such  modification  or  addition  shall  be 
made  unless  at  a  regular  meeting,  after  due  publication  thereof, 
and  then  only  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  aldermen  elected, 
said  vote  to  be  taken  by  ayes  and  noes,  and  entered  on  the  minutes 
of  the  council ;  and  in  case  the  same  is  vetoed  by  the  mayor,  it 
shall  require  three-fourtlis  of  all  the  aldermen  elected  to  pass  the 
same  over  such  veto. 

The  board  of  assessors  hereby  created  shall  perform  all  the 
duties  in  relation  to  assessing  property,  for  the  purpose  of  levying 
the  taxes  imposed  by  the  common  council.  The  assessors,  in  the 
performance  of  their  duties,  shall  have  the  same  powers,  and  be 
subject  to'  the  same  liabilities  as  are  or  may  be  given  by  law  to 
town  assessors,  unless  otherwise  provided  in  this  chapter. 

The  State  laws  for  the  assessment  of  all  taxable  real  and  per- 
sonal property  now  in  force,  or  that  may  hereafter  be  adopted, 
unless  in  conflict  with  this- chapter,  or  the  acts  to  which  this  is  an 
amendment,  shall  apply  and  govern  in  making  municipal  assess- 
menta 

Sec.  18.  Personal  property  shall  be  listed  for  municipal  pur- 
poses, with  reference  to  the  quantity  on  hand  and  owned  on  the 
first  day  of  April  in  the  year  for  which  the  property  is  required  to 
be  listed,  including  the  property  purchased  on  that  day. 

Sec.  19.  When  any  person  shall  commence  merchandizing  in 
said  city  after  the  first  day  of  April  in  any  year,  the  average  value 
of  whose  personal  property  employed  in  merchandizing  shall  not 
have  been  previously  entered  on  the  assessor's  list  for  taxation  in 
said  city,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  person  to  make  out  a  sworn 
statement  of  the  probable  average  value  of  the  personal  property 
by  him  intended  to  be  employed  in  such  business,  until  the  first 
day  of  April  thereafter,  and  deliver  the  same  to  the  tax  commis- 
sioner, who  shall  enter  the  same  on  the  tax  list  of  the  proper 
division  or  district,  and  shall  pay  to  the  collector  of  said  city  a 


10  CITY    CHARTER.  [cH. 


sum  which  shall  bear  the  same  proportion  to  the  levy  for  all  pur- 
poses on  the  average  value  so  employed,  as  the  time  from  the  day 
on  which  he  shall  commence  merchandizing  aforesaid  to  the  first 
day  of  April  next  succeeding  shall  bear  to  one  year. 

Sec,  20.  When  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  shall  commence 
or  engage  in  the  business  of  insurance,  banking,  dealing  in  stocks 
of  any  description,  or  in' buying  or  selling  any  kind  of  bills  of 
exchange,  checks,  drafts,  bank  notes,  promissory  notes,  or  other 
kind  of  writing  obligatory,  or  in  any  other  business  whatever,  after 
the  first  day  of  April  in  any  year,  the  average  value  of  whose  per 
sonal  property  so  employed  in  such  business  shall  not  have  been 
so  entered  on  the  assessor's  list  for  taxation  in  said  city,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  such  person,  or  firm,  or  such  corporation,  by  its  pres- 
ident, secretary,  or  principal  accounting  ofiicer,  to  make  a  sworn 
statement,  and  deliver  the  same  to  the  tax  commissioner,  giving 
fully  the  probable  average  value  of  the  property  by  him,  them  or 
it  intended  to  be  employed  in  such  business  until  the  first  day  of 
April  thereafter,  which  amount  shall  be  entered  on  the  tax  list  and 
the  tax  collected  as  in  other  cases. 

Sec.  21.  Should  any  person,  fii-m  or  corporation  fail  or  neglect 
to  make  out  sworn  statements  of  their  property  as  required  by  the 
two  preceding  sections,  and  report  the  same  to  the  tax  commis- 
sioner, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  assessors  to  assess  them  as  therein 
required,  as  nearly  as  may  be,  adding  thereto  ten  per  cent  in  addi- 
tion to  the  existing  provisions  of  law. 

Sec.  22.  If  any  real  or  personal  property  shall  have  been  here- 
tofore or  shall  hereafter  be  omitted  in  the  assessment,  or  on  which 
the  city  for  any  cause  shall  have  failed  to  collect  the  tax  of  any 
year  or  number  of  years,  the  same,  when  discovered  or  ascertained, 
shall  be  assessed  by  the  assessor  for  the  time  being  and  placed  on 
the  assessment  list  with  the  arrearages  of  tax  that  should  have 
been  assessed,  with  six  per  cent,  interest  thereon  from  the  time  the 
same  ought  to  have  been  paid. 


2.]  BOARD    OF    PUBLIC    WORKS.  11 

CHAPTER    II. 

BOARD  OF  PUBLIC  WORKS. 

Section  1.  The  board  of  public  works  shall  consist  of  three 
commissioners,  who  shall  be  appointed  on  or  before  the  first  Mon- 
da}^  of  April  next  by  the  mayor  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  with  the 
advice  and  consent  of  the  common  council — one  from  the  south, 
one  from  the  west  and  one  from  the  north  divisions  of  said  city^ 
each  of  whom  shall  have  been  a  resident  of  said  city  at  least  three 
years  and  a  resident  freeholder  in  the  division  of  said  city  for 
which  he  is  appointed,  at  least  one  year  immediately  preceding- 
such  appointment  Said  commissioners,  when  appointed,  shall 
hold  their  offices  for  the  term  of  years  following :  The  one  for  the 
south  division  of  said  city,'for  six  years ;  the  one  for  the  west 
division  of  said  city,  for  four  years ;  the  one  for- the  north  division 
of  said  city,  for  two  years,  and  until  the  appointment  and  qualifi- 
cation of  their  successors.  The  term  of  office  of  one  commissioner 
of  said  board  shall  expire  every  second  year,  so  that  one  commis- 
sioner of  said  board  shall  be  appointed  every  second  year,  from  the 
division  of  the  city  in  which  the-  commissioner  resides  whose  term 
of  office  expires ;  such  appointment  being  for  the  full  term  of  six 
years.  Should  a  vacancy  occur,  it  shall  be  filled  by  appointment 
by  the  mayor,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  common  council, 
for  the  unexpired  term. 

Sec.  2.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  now  in  force,  relating  to. the 
board  of  public-  works  as  now  constituted,  not  inconsistent  with 
the  provisions  of  this  act,  are  continued  in  force  and  shall  apply, 
to  the  board  of  public  works  as  provided  for  in  this  act,  and  all: 
the  powers  and  duties  confeiTcd  therein  on  the  present  board  shall- 
.  be  and  are  hereby  conferred  upon  the  board  ^f  public  works  as . 
provided  for  by  this  act ;  and  all  acts  or  parts  of  acts  inconsistent 
herewith  shall  be  repealed  from  and  after  the  first  Monday  of 
April,  A.  D.  1867,  and  all  such  acts  or  parts  of  acts  to  be  con- 
tinued in  full  force  and  effect  until  said  date.  The  terms  of  office 
of  the  present  board  of  public  works  shall  expire  on  said  day,,  or 
so  soon  as  their  successors  are  appointed  and  qualifi,ed  after  such 


12  CITY     CHARTER.  [CH. 

date.  The  salary  of  the  board  of  public  works,  as  provided  for 
in  this  act,  shall  be  not  less  than  three  thousand  dollars  annually, 
to  be  fixed  by  the  common  council. 

Sec.  3.  The  board  of  public  works  of  said  city,  in  addition  to 
the  power  hereinbefore  conferred,  are  hereby  authorized,  from 
time  to  time,  as  it  shall  be  deemed  by  them  for  the  interest  of 
said  city,  so  to  proceed,  to  advertise  for  proposals  for  the  construc- 
tion or  reconstruction,  or  relaying  of  all  or  any  portion  of  the 
sidewalks  which  may  be  required  to  be  constructed  or  recon- 
structed, or  relaid  during  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  municipal 
fiscal  year  in  which  such  proposals  are  received,  according  as  the 
same  shall  be  ordered  by  the  common  council  or  by  said  board, 
according  to  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  which  this  is  supple- 
mentary, the  general  provisions  of  said  act  relative  to  the  letting 
of  work  and  the  execution  of  contracts,  except  so  far  as  incon- 
sistent with  the  powers  hereby  granted,  to -apply  to  this  section. 

Sec  4.  In  case  the  prosecution  of  any  public  work  should  be 
suspended  in  consequence  of  the  default  of  any  contractor,  or  in 
case  the  bids  for  doing  any  such  work  should  be  deemed  excessive, 
or  the  persons  making  proposals  not  responsible  or  proper  persons, 
the  board  of  public  works  may,  if  the  common  council  shall,  by 
resolution,  by  a  three-fourths  vote  of  all  the  members  elected, 
authorize  them  to  do  so,  employ  workmen  and  procure  the  necessary 
tools  and  machinery  and  materials,  to  perform  or  complete  any 
improvement  ordered  by  the  council,  provided  the  expense  thereof 
shall  not  exceed  five  thousand  dollars.    . 

Sec.  5.  The  common  council  shall  have  power  to  cause  public 
sewers  to  be  constructed  and  laid  in  the  streets  and  alleys  and 
public  grounds  of  said  city  ;  to  establish  or  change  the  dock  lines 
of  Chicago  river  and  of  Chicago  harbor  so  as  to  facilitate  navigation 
on  the  same  ;  and  to  cause  water  and  gas  service  pipes,  with  their 
necessary  stop-cocks  and  other  fixtures,  to  be  constructed  and  laid 
so  as  to  connect  with  the  gas  or  water  mains  in  the  streets  of  said 
city. 


2.]  BOARD  OF  PUBLIC  WORKS.  !>"> 

Sec.  6.  The  provisions  of  the  acts  to  whicli  this,  is  supple- 
mentary as  to  the  manner  of  making  application  for  any  improve- 
ments to  be  executed  by  said  city,  are  hereby  made  to  apply  to 
the  improvements  specified  in  the  foregoing  sections. 

Sec.  7.  After  a  street  has  been  filled,  curbed,  macadamized, 
or  paved,  or  filled,  curbed  and  graveled^  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the 
common  council  to  provide  for  the  payment  of  any  subsequent 
improvement  in  whole  or  in  part  out  ef  the  general  fund. 

Sec.  8.  When  in  any  case  it  shall  be  deemed  necessary  by  the 
board  of  public  works  to  cause  any  sidewalk  to  be  raised,  lowered, 
repaired  or  relaid,  or  any  private  drain  to  be  raised,  lowered, 
repaired  or  cleaned,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  said  board  to  require  the 
owner  of  the  premises  in  front  of,  adjacent  to  or  upon  which  said 
improvement  is  to  be  made,  to  make  the  same  forthwith,  or  within 
such  reasonable  time  as  the  board  of  public  works  may  prescribe, 
upon  written  notice  to  that  effect ;  or  the  board  of  public  works 
may  cause  the  work  to  be  done  and  paid  out  of  any  moneys  in  the 
treasury  at  their  disposal.  Said  board  shall  then  report  to  the 
common  council  the  amount  of  said  expenditure,  giving  a  descrip- 
tion of  the  lots  or  premises  liable  therefor,  and  the  amount  for 
which  each  is  chargeable.  The  common  council  shall  thereupon 
assess  the  said  expenses,  by  an  order,  ordinance  or  resolution,  upon 
such  lots  respej3tively,  and  the  same  may  be  collected  by  warrant 
and  sale  of  the  premises  as  in  other  cases. 

In  like  manner  when  the  common  council  shall  have  ordered 
the  construction,  or  reconstruction,  or  repair  of  any  sidewalk, 
private  drain,  or  gas  or  water  service  pipe,  it  shall  be  lawful  for 
said  board  to  cause  the  work  to  be  done  and  paid  for  as  above,  or 
by  an  agreement  with  a  contractor,  payment  to  be  made  out  of  the 
special  assessment  to  be  levied  for  the  same,  and  shall  then  report 
to  the  common  council  the  cost  and  expense  of  said  work,  with 
all  proceedings  relative  thereto,  giving  a  description  of  the  lots  and 
premises  to  which  said  expense  is  chargeable,  and  the  common 
council  shall  thereupon  assess  the  said  expenses  upon  such  lots 
respectively,  and  the  same  may  be  collected  by  warrant  and  sale 
of  the  premises,  as  provided  above. 


14  CITY  CHARTER.  [CH. 

A  suit  may  also  be  maintained  against  the  owner  of  such 
premises  for  the  recovery  of  such  expenses,  as  for  money  paid  and 
laid  out  for  his  use  and  at  his  request.  The  common  council  may 
also,  by  ordinance,  impose  such  penalties  upon  the  owners  afore- 
said, for  any  neglect  or  refusal  to  comply  with  the  aforesaid 
requirements,  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars  for  each  day's  neglect, 
as  to  the  said  common  council  shall  seem  most  proper.  All 
assessments  authorized  under  this  section  shall  be  collected  by 
said  city,  with  damages  at  the  rate  of  one  percent,  a  month  thereon 
for  each  and  every  month  that  any  such  assessment  shall  remain 
unpaid,  thirty  days  after  the  time  when  public  notice  shall  have 
been  given  by  the  city  collector  that  the  warrant  for  such  assess- 
ment has  been  received  by  him  for  collection. . 

> 

Sec.  9.  Section  11  of  chapter  IX  of  said  act,  approved  February 
13,  1863,  is  hereby  so  amended  that  in  case  of  assessments  made  in 
accordance  with  the  foregoing  section,  damages  on  any  assessments 
which  shall  remain  unpaid  after  the  collector  shall  give  public 
notice  that  he  has  received  the  warrant  for  its  collection,  shall 
begin  to  accrue  at  the  rate  of  one  per  cent,  a  month  thirty  days 
after  the  date  [of]  such  notice. 

Sec.  10.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  common  council,  on  the 
recommendation  of  the  board  of  public  works,  under  the  provis- 
ions of  section  38  of  chapter  VII  of  the  said  act,  approved  February 
13,  1863,  to  levy  a  tax  for  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  expefise 
for  an  improvement  of  the  character  specified  in  said  section. 

Sec.  11.  Under  the  provisions  of  section  thirty-four  (34)  of 
chapter  V,  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  supplementary,  approved 
February  13,  1863,  the  common  council  is  hereby  authorized,  in 
the  event  that  any  improvement  shall  be  ordered  after  the  making 
of  the  annual  appropriation,  some  portion  of  the  expense  of  which 
shall  be  assessed  by  the  commissioners  of  the  board  of  public 
works  on  some  lot  or  lots  of  land  owned  by  said  city,  to  appro- 
priate and  borrow  money  for  the  payment  of  such  assessments,  as  is 
provided  for  cases  enumerated  in  said  section. 


2.]  "  BOARD    OF   PUBLIC    WORKS.  15 

Sec.  12.  For  the  purposes  specified  in  chapter  XV  of  the  act 
approved  February  13,  1863,  of  which  this  is  amendatory  and 
supplementary,  the  said  city  shall  have  power  to  borrow  from  time 
to  time,  a  sum  of  money  not  exceeding  one  million  of  dollars,  and 
to  issue  bonds  therefor ;  and  all  the  provisions  of  said  act,  as  to  the 
issue,  custody  and  sale  of  water  loan  bonds,  and  the  custody  and 
disbursement  of  the  proceeds  thereof,  shall  apply  to  the  loan  hereby 
authorized,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided. 

Sec.  13.  If  from  any  cause  the  city  has,  heretofore,  or  shall 
hereafter  feiil  to  collect  any  tax  on  the  general  tax  warrant  of  said 
city,  in  any  year,  or  in  case  the  receipt  of  the  revenues  of  said  city 
shall  fall  short  of  the  amounts  appropriated  by  the  common  coun- 
cil, it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  said  council  to  authorize  the  mayor 
and  comptroller  to  borrow  a  sufficient  amount  of  money  to  meet 
any  such  deficiency,  for  any  length  of  time  not  exceeding  the 
close  of  the  next  municipal  year,  and  to  issue  and  negotiate  bonds 
or  certificates  of  indebtedness  therefor,  which  said  amounts  shall  be 
provided  for  in  the  annual  appropriation  bill  of  the  municipal  year 
next  succeeding  such  loan. 

Sec.  14.  Upon  receiving  an  application  for  the  making  of  any 
improvement  of  any  street,  lane  or  alley,  the  said  board  shall  pro- 
ceed to  investigate  the  same ;  and  if  they  shall  determine  that  such 
improvement  is  necessary  and  proper,  they  shall  report  the  same 
to  the  common  council,  accompanied  with  a  statement  of  the  ex- 
pense thereof,  and  a  proper  ordinance  or  order  directing  the  work, 
and  shall  in  such  estimate  specify  how  much  of  said  expense,  in 
their  opinion,  may  be  properly  changeable  to  real  estate  especially 
benefited  by  such  improvement,  and  how  much  thereof  may  be 
properly  chargeable  to  and  paid  out  of  the  general  fund,  or  out  of 
the  proceeds  of  any  general  tax  authorized  to  be  levied  by  said 
city.  Having  reported  on  such  application,  and  recommending 
that  the  improvement  be  made,  or  disapproving  of  the  doing  of  it, 
as  is  provided  for  in  the  above  mentioned  act,  the  common  council 
may  then,  in  either  case,  order  the  doing  of  such  work  or  the 
making  of  such  public  improvement,  after  having  first  obtained 
from  said  board  an  estimate  'of  the  expense  thereof ;  and  shall  in 
such  order  specify  what  amount  of  said  estimated  expense  shall  be 


16  CITY    CHARTER.  [CH. 

assessed  upon  the  property  deemed  especially  benefited,  and  what 
amount  shall  be  chargeable  to  and  be  paid  in  of  the  proceeds  of 
the  general  fund  or  out  of  the  proceeds  of  any  general  tax  author- 
ized to  be  levied  by  said  city. 

Sec.  15.  No  alderman  shall,  during  his  continuance  in  office, 
receive  any  compeiisation  for  his  services,  or  be  appointed  to  or 
competent  to  hold  any  office,  the  emoluments  of  which  are  paid 
from  the  city  treasury,  or  paid  by  fees,  in  pursuance  of  any  act  or 
ordinance  of  the  common  council,  and  no  member  of  the  common 
council,  or  other  city  officer,  shall  be  directly  or  indirectly  inter- 
ested in  any  contract,  the  expense  or  consideration  of  which  is  to 
be  paid  under  any  ordinance  or  resolution  of  the  common  council. 

Sec.  16.  The  power  of  assessment  conferred  by  section  1  of 
the  act  amendatory  of  the  revised  charter  of  said  city,  approved 
February  16,  1865,  is  hereby  extended  to  and  made  to  include  the 
laying  or  relaying  of  any  gas  or  water  service  pipe,  to  be  paid  for 
wholly  or  in  part  by  special  assessment,  and  the  doing  of  which  is 
within  the  authority  and  discretion  of  the  municipal  government  of 
said  city,  and  the  commissioners  of  the  board  of  public  works  shall 
;assess  the  amount  directed  by  the  common  council  to  be  assessed 
for  any  such  improvement,  with  the  costs  of  the  proceedings 
-therein,  upon  the  real  estate  by  them  deemed  specially  benefited 
by  such  improvement,  in  proportion,  as  nearly  as  may  be,  to  the 
benefit  resulting  thereto. 

Sfic.  17.  In  case  it  shall  hereafter  be  determined  by  judicial 
•decision  that  any  of  the  improvements  authorized  by  law,  or  by 
ihis  act,  to  be  done  or  made  by  the  city,  cannot  be  paid  for  in 
whole  or  in  part  by  special  assessment  for  benefit,  then  it  shall 
be  lawful  for  the  common  council,  and  they  are  hereby  authorized 
to  levy  and  collect  taxes  for  such  purposes  on  all  the  property 
assessed  in  said  city  for  taxation  for  general  revenue  purposes. 


3.]  BOARD    OF   POLICE.  l7 

CHAPTER    III. 

BOARD   OF   POLICE. 

Section  1.  The  board  of  police,  in  their  annual  estimate  of 
police  expenses,  made  to  the  city  comptroller,  shall,  if  in  their 
judgment  the  public  weal  rcquires  it^  recommend  to  the  common 
council  such  additional  police  patrolmen,  and  also  such  additional 
sergeants,  not  exceeding  twenty,  as  may  be  necessary. 

Sec.  2,  The  common  council  may,  on  sucb  recommendation 
of  said  board,  provide  by  ordinance  for  such  increase  of  the  patrol 
force;  Provided^  however^  it  shall  require  three-fourths  of  all  the 
aldermen  elected  to  pass  such  ordinance,  such  vote  to  be  taken  by 
ayes  and  noes,  and  entered  on  the  records  of  the  council. 

Sec.  3.  The  board  of  police  commissioners  shall  devote  their 
entire  time,  if  requisite,  to  the  duties  of  their  office,  and  shall 
receive  an  annual  salary  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  hundred 
dollars,  to  be  fixed  by  the  common  council.  The  superintendent 
of  police  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  not  less  than  three  thou- 
sand dollars.  The  deputy  superintendent  shall  receive  an  annual 
salary  of  not  less  than  twentj^-five  hundred  dollars.  Each  captain 
of  police  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  not  less  than  fifteen, 
hundred  dollars  per  annum.  Each  sergeant  and  policeman  detailed! 
as  detectives  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  not  less  than  twelve 
hundred  dollars.  Each  patrolman  shall  receive  an  annual  salary 
of  not  less  than  eight  hundred  dollars  nor  more  than  one  thousand 
dollars,  the  amount  to  be  fixed  by  the  board  of  police  commis- 
sioners, with  the  concurrence  of  the  common  eouncil.  Said  salaries 
so  to  be  fixed,  shall  not  be  in  any  wise  increased  or  diminished 
during  the  municipal  year. 

Sec.  4.  The  board  of  police  commissioners  may  employ  neces- 
sary clerks,  and  fix  their  annual  salary,  to.  be  paid  out  of  the  police- 
fund.  ~ 

Sec.  0.     It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  person  designated  by  the- 
board  as  the  custodian  or  depositary  of  stolen  property,  to  sell  the 
2 


18  CITY    CHARTER.  [CH. 


same,  after  due  notice,  at  public  auction,  under  and  pursuant  to 
•sucli  general  orders  and  regulations  as  th^  board  of  police  shall 
prescribe.  The  proceeds  of  such  sales,  after  deducting  the  cost  of 
storage,  advertising,  selling,  and,  in  cases  of  animals,  their  keeping, 
shall  be  paid  over  to  the  president  of  said  board,  to  be  bj  him 
paid  into  the  city  treasury,  to  the  credit  of  the  police  life  and 
health  insurance  fund,  as  already  provided  by  law. 

''  Sec.  6.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  other  than  a  police 
■officer  or  patrolman  to  wear  a  star,  or  other  similar  device  like  that 
of  a  policeman,  under  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars 
nor  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

FIRE   DEPARTMENT. 

Sec.  7.  The  fire  marshal,  the  assistant  fire  marshals,  the  mem- 
bers of  the  board  of  police,  and  such  members  of  the  fire  depart- 
ment as  the  board  of  police  may  designate  and  appoint,  shall  be 
fire  wardens,  and  shall  have  .and  exercise  all  the  rights  and  powers, 
and  shall  perform  all  the  duties  now  conferred,  exercised,  imposed 
or  required  by  law  of  fire  waJ-dens.  The  fire  wardens  are  hereby 
authorized  to  enter  upon  and  inspect  any  building,  place  or  places, 
for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  whether  the  same  is  or  are  in  a 
safe  condition,  and,  if  not,  to  direct  or  cause  the  same  to  be  made 
so. 

Sec.  S.  The  common  council  may,  in  the  annual  appropriation 
bill,  by  £L  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  aldermen  authorized  to  be 
elected,  to  be  taken  by  ayes  and  noes,  and  entered  upon  the  records 
of  the  council,  on  the  recommendation  of  the  board  of  police,  fix 
tlie  salaries  of  the  members  of  the  fire  department  at  not  exceed- 
ing the  following  sums  respectively  per  annum :  fire  marshal, 
three  thousand  dollars  ($3,000) ;  first  assistant  fire  marshal,  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  dollars  ($1,800)  ;  second  assistant  iire  mar- 
shal, one  thousand  six  hundred  dollars  ($1,600) ;  third  assistant 
,fire  marshal,  <one  thousand  four  hundred  dollars  ($1,400) ;  eagin- 
»eers  of  fire  engines,  one  thousand  four  hundred  dollars  ($1,400) ; 
foremen  of  companies,  one  thousand  two  hundred  dollars  ($1,200)^ 


3.]  FIRE    DEPARTMENT.  19 

fire  policemen,  nine  hundred  dollars,  ($900) ;  and  watchmen  of 
engine  houses,  seven  hundred  and  twenty  dollars  ($720). 

Sec.  9.  The  board  of  police  are  hereby  empowered  to  regulate 
the  construction  of  chimneys,  and  to  compel  the  cleaning  thereof; 
to  prevent  the  setting  up  or  construction  of  boilers,  stoves,  ovens, 
or  other  things,  in  such  a  manner  as  to  be  dangerous  ;  to  prohibit 
the  deposit  of  ashes  in  unsafe  places  ;  to  regulate  the  carrying  on 
of  manufactories  dangerous  in  causing  or  promoting  fires  ;  to  reg- 
ulate or  prohibit  the  sale  or  use  of  fireworks  in  said  city  ;  to  raze 
or  demolish  any  building,  wall  or  erection  which,  by  reason  of  fire 
or  any  other  cause,  may  become  dangerous  to  human  life  or  health, 
or  tend  to  extend  a  conflagration. 

Sec.  10.  The  board  of  police  are  hereby  authorized  to  estab- 
lish, by  order  or  regulation,  grades  in  the  office  of  assistant  fire  mar- 
shals, to  be  known  as  first,  second  and  third  assistant  fire  marshals. 

Sec.  11.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  assistants,  if  in  their 
power,  to  attend  all  the  fires  happening  in  any  division  of  the  city, 
and  in  case  of  the  absence  of  the  fire  marshal  at  any  fire,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  first  assistant  to  take  charge  of  the  organization, 
and  he  shall  have  and  exercise  all  the  powers  of  the  fire  marshal ; 
and  in  case  of  the  absence  of  both  the  fire  marshal  and  first  assist- 
ant, the  second  assistant  shall  have  and  exercise  the  duties  and 
powers  of  fire  marshal ;  and  in  case  of  the  absence  of  the  marshal 
and  first  and  second  assistants,  the  third  assistant  shall  be  invested 
with  the  powers  and  perform  the  duties  of  fire  marshal. 

Sec.  12,  The  board  of  police  may,  two-thirds  of  the  common 
council  concurring,  cause  the  ordinary  repairs  of  fire  engines,  fire 
apparatus,  and  of  the  fire  alarm  telegraph,  to  be  done  in  any  shop 
belonging  to  said  city,  and  for  that  purpose  may  employ  additional 
mechanics  and  provide  additional  tools  and  machinery,  if  absolutely 
required. 

Sec.  13.  The  police  commissioners  of  the  city  of  Chicago  are 
hereby  authorized  and  required  to  make  an  investigation  into  the 
origin  of  every  fire  occurring  in  said  city,  and  for  that  purpose 


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they  are  hereby  invested  with  the  same  powers  and  jurisdiction  as 
are  now  possessed  by  the  police  justices  of  said  city. 

Sec.  14.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  common  council,  upon  the 
recommendation  of  the  Chicago  board  of  underwriters,  to  appoint 
a  qualified  voter  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  when  so  recommended 
by  said  board  of  underwriters,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  act  with 
the  board  of  police  commissioners  of  said  city  in  all  matters  relat- 
ing to  the  organization,  government,  appointment  and  discipline 
of  the  fire  department  in  said  city.  The  person  appointed  shall 
have  the  same  powers  and  authority  in  reference  to  the  fire  depart- 
ment as  is  now  by  law  conferred  upon  the  several  members  of 
said  board  of  police  commissioners,  but  he  shall  have  no  authority 
or  right  to  act  as  a  member  of  said  board  for  any  other  purpose 
than  that  herein  specified. 

Sec.  15.  The  person  so  appointed  shall  hold  his  office  for  one 
year  from  the  date  thereof,  and  until  his  successor  is  qualified  and 
appointed,  unless  sooner  removed  by  the  said  common  council 
upon  the  recommendation  of  the  said  board  of  underwriters,  and 
he  shall  take  the  same  oath,  and  make  and  execute  the  same  bond 
to  said  city,  in  the  same  manner  as  the  several  members  of  said 
board  of  police  commissioners  are  now  required  by  law  to  do,  and 
he  shall,  under  the  direction  of  the  common  council  and  the  said 
Chicago  board  of  underwriters,  devote  his  exclusive  attention  to 
the  interest  of  the  said  fire  department. 

Sec.  16.  The  salary  of  the  person  appointed  as  herein  provid- 
ed, shall  be  fixed,  at  the  time  of  such  appointment,  by  the  said 
board  of  underwriters,  and  the  salary  so  determined  upon  shall  be 
paid  by  the  said  board  of  underwriters  in  equal  monthly  pay- 
ments, and  no  other  or  additional  compensation  shall  be  allowed 
by  the  common  council  to  said  commissioner,  for  services  rendered 
in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  nor  shall  the  city,  in 
any  event,  be  liable  to  said  commissioner  for  his  compensation  for 
such  services. 

Sec.  17.  When  such  appointment  is  made  by  the  common 
council,  the  person  so  appointed,  upon  taking  the  prescribed  oath 


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FIRE    DEPARTMENT. 


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arid  filing  the  bond  required  by  tbis  act,  sball  be  deemed  legally 
qualified,  and  sball  at  once  euter  upon  tbe  discharge  of  his  duties 
as  a  member  of  said  board  of  police  commissioners  in  masters 
only  pertaining  to  the  fire  department  of  said  city. 

Sec.  18.  In  case  of  either  the  death,  resignation  or  removal  of 
the  person  so  appointed,  the  common  council  shall  fill  the  vacancy 
in  the  same  manner  as  herein  provided  for  the  appointment  thereof. 

Sec.  19.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are 
hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  20.  In  addition  to  the  report  now  required  to  be  made  by 
the  police  commissioners  to  the  common  council,  they  shall  make 
to  the  said  council  annually,  a  report  of  the  number  and  location 
of  all  fires  occurring  during  each  month  in  the  year ;  the  charac- 
ter of  the  building ;  for  what  purpose  used;  the  amount  of  insur- 
ance oti  buildings  and  contents,  with  such  other  facts  and  practi- 
cal suggestions  as  they  may  deem  beneficial. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

BOARD   OF   HEALTH. 

Section  1.  The  mayor  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  with  six  other 
persons  to  be  appointed  on  the  passage  of  this  act  by  the  judges 
of  the  superior  court  of  Chicago,  each  of  whom  shall  be  a  resident 
of  said  city,  and  three  of  wliom,  and  no  more,  shall  be  physicians, 
shall  constitute  the  board  of  health  of  the  city  of  Chicago.  Said 
board  of  health  shall  have,  and  there  is  hereby  conferred  on  said 
board,  such  powers  and  duties  as  may  be  necessary  to  promote  or 
preserve  the  safety  or  health  of  the  city,  or  improve  its  sanitary 
condition. 

Sec.  2.  Said  board  of  health  may  enact  such  by-laws,  rules 
and  regulations  as  it  may  deem  advisable,  in  harmony  with  the 
provisions  and  objects  of  this  act  and  all  acts  the  Object  of  which 
is  to  promote  and  preserve  the  health,  safety  and  sanitary  condition 


22  CITY    CHARTER.  [CH. 

of  the  city,  now  existing  or  that  may  hereafter  be  passed,  not 
inconsistent  with  the  constitution  or  laws  of  this  State,  for  the 
regulation  of  the  action  of  said  board,  its  officers  and  agents,  in 
the  discharge  of  its  and  their  duties,  and  for  the  regulation  of  the 
citizens  or  public,  and  from  time  to  time  may  alter,  amend  or 
annul  the  same. 

Sec.  3.  The  six  members  appointed  as  herein  provided  shall 
be  divided  into  three  classes :  the  first  class  shall  hold  office  for 
two  years ;  the  second  class  for  four  years,  and  the  third  class  for 
six  years  ;  and  they  shall  determine  by  lot  at  the  first  meeting  of 
said  board  which  two  of  them  shall  hold  office  for  the  respective 
terms  of  two  years,  four  and  six  years.  Vacancies  occurring  in 
the  said  board  by  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  office  of  either  class, 
shall  be  filled  by  appointment  by  the  judges  of  the  superior  court 
of  Chicago  for  six  years  ;  any  vacancy  caused  by  either  removal, 
resignation  or  death,  shall  be  filled  in  like  manner  for  the  unexpired 
term.  The  members  of  said  board  appointed  as  herein  provided, 
shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  not  less  than  five  hundred  dollars, 
to  be  fixed  by  the  common  council.  Before  entering  upon  the 
duties  of  their  office,  they  shall  take  the  oath  prescribed  for  State 
officers  in  the  constitution  of  the  State,  and  they  shall  also  give 
bonds  to  the  said  city  in  the  sum  of  twenty -five  thousand  dollars 
each,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  performance  of  their  duties  as 
members  of  the  board  of  health  under  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
said  bonds  to  be  approved  by  the  judges  of  the  superior  court  of 
Chicago,  and  filed  with  their  oath  of  office  in  the  office  of  the  city 
clerk.  And  in  case  of  failure  to  comply  with  the  require- 
ments of  this  section,  prior  to  the  first  meeting  of  said  board,  the 
office  of  such  member,  so  failing  to  take  the  prescribed  oath  and 
give  a  bond,  shall  be  deemed  vacant,  and  shall  be  filled  as  in  this 
act  provided.  The  members  of  the  board  of  health  may  be 
removed  from  office  for  like  cause  and  in  like  manner  as  the  board 
of  police  or  the  members  of  the  board  of  public  works. 

Sec.  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  health,  on  or  before 
the  first  Monday  in  April  of  each  year,  to  report  in  writing  the 
condition  of  the  health  department,  and  a  statement  of  the  expend- 
itures of  the  health  board  for  the  year,  to  the  common  council. 


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Sec.  5.  The  said  board  of  health  shall  meet  at  the  office  of  the 
mayor  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  on  or  before  the  first  Monday  of 
April  next,  and  organize  by  the  election  of  one  of  their  number 
president  and  by  appointing  a '  competent  person  to  be  secretary 
of  said  board,  and  the  successive  presidents  of  said  board  of  health 
shall  be  annually  elected  'from  the  members  thereof  The  secre- 
tary shall  keep  a  correct  and  complete  record  of  all  the  acts,  doings 
and  proceedings  of  said  board  ;  he  shall  receive  an  annual  salary 
to  be  fixed  by  the  board,  and  shall  hold  office  during  the  pleasure 
of  said  board,  but  shall  not  be  a  member  thereof. 

Sec.  6.  The  board  of  police  shall  appoint  such  additional 
police  patrolmen,  to  be  subject  to  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the 
police  department,  as  the  board  of  health  may,  from  time  to  time, 
in  writing,  request,  to  be  detailed  as  a  sanitary  squad,  and  be  paid 
out  of  the  health  fund,  the  length  of  time  for  which  they  are 
wanted  to  be  stated  in  said  written  request 

Sec.  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  health  to  prepare 
and  submit  to  the  comptroller,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  May  m 
every  year,  an  estimate  of  the  whole  cost  and  expenses  of  provid- 
ing for  and  maintaining  the  health  department  of  said  city  during 
the  current  fiscal  year,  which  estimate  shall  be  laid,  by  said 
comptroller,  before  the  common  council  with  his  annual  estimate. 
The  common  council  may  provide  for  the  amount  so  required  in 
the  general  tax  levy  to  be  laid  on  said  city.  Said  money  shall  be 
paid  into  the  city  treasury,  and  shall  be  styled  "  the  health  fund," 
and  shall  be  drawn  out  for  health  purposes  on  the  warrant  of  the 
city  comptroller,  which  shall  be  countersigned  by  the  president  or  ^ 
acting  president  of  the  board  of  health.  The  warrant  of  the 
comptroller  shall  not  be  drawn  on  said  fund  except  on  the  certifi- 
cate of  the  president  or  acting  president  of  said  board  of  health. 

Sec.  8.  In  case  of  pestilence  or  epidemic  disease,  or  of  danger 
from  anticipated  or  impending  pestilence  or  epidemic  disease,  or  in 
case  the  sanitary  condition  of  the  city  should  be  of  such  a  charac- 
ter as  to  warrant  it,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  board  of  health 
to  take  such  measures,  and  to  do,  and  order,  and  cause  to  be  done, 
such  acts  for  the  preservation  of  the  public  health  (though  not 


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herein,  or  elsewliere,  or  otherwise  authorized),  as  it  may,  in  good 
faith,  declare  the  public  safety  and  health  to  demand. 

Sec.  9.  The  common  council,  for  the  purpose  of  providing  for 
the  contingency  mentioned  in  the  preceding  section,  may  order  the 
mayor  and  comptroller  to  borrow  a  sufficient  amount  to  cover  such^ 
extraordinary  expenditure  for  a  space  of  time  not  exceeding  the 
close  of  the  next  municipal  year,  _which  sum,  together  with  the 
interest,  shall  be  added  to  the  amount  authorized  to  be  raised  in 
the  next  general  tax  levy,  and  embraced  therein. 

Sec.  10.  Any  person  or  corporation  who  shall  violate  any  of 
the  provisions  of  the  health  laws  or  ordinances  of  the  city,  or  any 
of  the  by-laws,  rules  or  regulations  of  the  board  of  health,  in 
addition  to  existing  penalties,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  five  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  and  on  failure  to 
promptly  pay  the  same,  may  be  imprisoned  in  the  county  jail, 
bridewell,  or  house  of  correction,  as  in  other  cases  of  failure  to  pay 
a  fine,  or  such  person  may  be  both  fined  and  imprisoned,  in  the 
discretion  of  the  court  or  magistrate. 

Sec.  11.  All  laws,  or  parts  thereof,  relating  to  the  health 
department  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  now  in  force,  not  inconsistent 
with  this  act,  are  continued  in  force,  and  all  powers  therein  con- 
ferred on  the  present  board  of  health,  not  inconsistent  herewith, 
are  hereby  conferred  on  the  board  of  health  of  the  city  of  Chicago, 
as  provided  for  in  this  act :  Provided^  that  nothing  in  this  act  con- 
tained shall  be  construed  as  in  any  manner  giving  to  the  said 
board  of  health  any  power  or  control  as  police  commissioners  over 
the  police  department  of  the  city  of  Chicago. 


CHAPTEE    V. 

COMMON    COUNCIL. 


Section  1.  The  common  council  of  the  city  of  Chicago  shall 
have  power,  by  ordinance : 

First  —  To  prevent  the  interment  of  the  dead  within  the  present 
or  future  limits  of  the  city. 


5.]  COMMON    COUNCIL.  25 

Second  —  To  provide  for  the  vacation  of  the  several  cemeteries 
in  said  city  by  the  purchase  and  extinguishment  of  the  titles  of  lot 
owners,  or  otherwise. 

Third  —  To  purchase  grounds  and  erect  thereon  a  city  hall, 
and  provide  for  the  payment  thereof  by  the  issuing  and  negotia- 
ting of  the  bonds  of  said  city,  or  by  the  levy  and  collection  of 
taxes,  or  partly  by  both :  Provided,  however,  that  no  such  levy 
shall  in  any  one  year  exceed  two  mills  on  the  dollar  on  the 
assessed  value  of  the  real  and  personal  estate  in  the  city,  made 
taxable  by  the  laws  of  this  State. 

Fourth  —  To  provide  for  the  inspection  and  regulation  of  sta- 
tionary steam  engines  and  boilers. 

Fifth  —  To  appropriate  not  exceeding  ten  thousand  dollars 
($10,000)  in  any  one  year  from  the  city  treasury  for  celebrating 
the  Fourth  of  July,  for  funeral  occasions,  and  to  defray  the  ex-, 
penses  of  entertaining  official  visitors  of  sister  cities :  Provided, 
however,  such  order  or  appropriation  shall  be  passed  only  by  the 
votes  of  at  least  three-fourths  of  all  the  aldermen  elected,  such  vote 
to  be  entered  by  ayes  and  noes  on  the  records  of  the  common 
council. 

Sixth  —  To  prescribe,  regulate  and  ^control  the  time  or  times, 
manner  and  speed  of  all  boats,  crafts  and  vessels,  passing  the 
bridg'js  over  the  Chicago  river  a!nd  its  branches. 

Seventh  —  To  control  and  regulate  the  construction  of  buildings, 
chimneys  and  stacks,  and  to  prevent  and  prohibit  the  erection  or 
maintenance  of  any  insecure  or  unsafe  buildings,  stack,  wall  or 
chimney,  in  said  city,  and  to  declare  them  to  be  nuisances,  and  to 
provide  for  their  summary  abatement 

Eighth  —  To  cause  the  seizure  and  destruction  or  other  dispo- 
sition of  tainted  or  unwholesome  meat,  butter,  vegetables,  fruit  or 
provisions. 

Ninth  —  To  authorize  the  use  of  the  streets  and  alleys  in  said 
city  by  railroad  companies,  or  city  railway  companies,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  laying  tracks  and  running  cars  thereon :  Provided,  however,. 
permission  or  authority  shall  not  be  given,  nor  shall  any  such 
grant  or  permission  already  given  be  extended,  unless  by  vote  at 
least  [of]  three-fourths  of  all  the  aldermen  elected,  such  votes  to 
be  entered  by  ayes  and  noes  on  the  records  of  the  council :  And 
provided,  further,  that  no  grant,  consent,  contract  or  permission 


26  OITY   CHARTEE.  [CH. 

heretofore  given  or  made,  or  hereafter  to  be  made  or  given,  shall 
in  any  case  be  extended  until  within  one  year  of  the  expiration  of 
such  grant,  consent,  contract  or  permission  :  And  provided,  further, 
that  in  case  of  a  veto  by  the  mayor,  any  such  grant  or  permission 
shall  receive  the  votes  of  three-fourths  of  all  the  aldermen  elected, 
to  take  effect  as  an  act  or  law  of  the  corporation. 

Tenth  —  To  direct,  regulate  and  prohibit  the  location  and  man- 
agement of  houses  for  the  storing  of  gunpowder,  or  other  combus- 
tible material,  within  the  city  and  within  one.  mile  of  the  limits 
thereof 

Eleventh  —  To  declare  that  it ,  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  hall, 
theatre,  opera-house,  church,  school-house,  or  building  of  any  kind 
whatsoever,  to  be  used  for  the  assemblage  of  people,  unless  the 
same  is  provided  with  ample  means  for  the  safe  and  speedy  egress 
of  the  persons  therein  assembled  in  case  of  alarm. 

Twelfth  —  To  control,  regulate  or  prohibit  the  use  of  steam 
whistles  within  the  limits  of  the  city. 

Thirteenth  —  To  provide  for  the  borrowing,  from  time  to  time,  a 
sum  of  money  not  exceeding  five  hundred  thousand  dollars  in  the 
aggregate,  to  pay  existing  debts  incurred  by  said  city  for  sewerage 
works,  and  to  increase  the  sewerage  works  of  said  city :  Provided, 
however,  the  said  loan  or  loans  shall  be  made  in  strict  conformity 
with  the  provisions  of  chapter  sixteen  of  the  act  of  1863,  to  which 
this  is  an  amendment. 

Fourteenth  —  To  direct  and  require  the  board  of  public  works  to 
let  the  cleaning  of  the  streets,  alleys,  lanes  and  highways,  or  ordin- 
ary repairs  on  the  same,  or  any  portion  or  part  thereof,  to  the 
lowest  reliable  and  responsible  bidder  or  bidders.  The  said  letting 
and  contracts  to  be  in  all  respects  governed  by  the  provisions  of 
the  law  in  regard  to  the  letting  of  contracts  for  improving  the 
streets:  Provided,  however,  it  shall  require  two-thirds  of  all  the 
aldermen  elected  to  pass  any  such  ordinance,  such  vote  to  be  taken 
by  ayes  and  noes,  and  entered  on  the  records  of  the  council. 

Fifteenth  —  To  direct  and  authorize  the  board  of  health  to  let  the 
scavenger  work,  night  or  day,  or  both,  to  the  lowest  reliable  and 
responsible  bidder  or  bidders,  or  in  case  a  proper  contract  cannot 
be  made,  to  authorize  said  board  to  do  said  work.  Such  letting  to 
be  governed  in  all  respects,  as  nearly  as  may  be,  by  the  provisions 
of  the  charter  in  reference  to  the  letting  of  street  improvements. 


5.]  COMMON    COUNCIL.  27 

Sixteenth  —  To  regulate  or  prohibit  the  carrying  or  wearing  by 
any  person  under  his  clothes,  or  concealed  about  his  person,  any 
pistol  or  colt,  or  slung  shot,  or  cross  knuckles,  or  knuckles  of  lead, 
brass  or  other  metal,  or  bowie  knife,  dirk  knife,  or  dirk  or  dagger, 
or  any  other  dangerous  or  deadly  weapons,  and  to  provide  for  the 
confiscation  or  sale  of  such  weapons. 

Seventeenth  —  To  sell  or  otherwise  dispose  of  any  grounds  hereto- 
fore purchased  for  a  bridewell  or  house  of  correction. 

Eighteenth  —  To  purchase  grounds  either  within  or  without  the 
corporate  limits  of  said  city,  and  erect  the  necessary  buildings 
thereon  for  a  city  bridewell  or  house  of  correction. 

Nineteenth  —  To  provide  for  the  payment  of  the  same  by  the 
levy  and  collection  of  taxes,  or  the  issue  and  negotiation  of  bonds, 
or  partly  by  both. 

Twentieth  —  To  adopt  all  necessary  rules  and  regulations  for  the 
government  of  said  institution,  and  the  proper  discipline  of  the 
inmates  thereof,  and  also  to  purchase  all  materials,  tools  and 
machinery  necessary  to  secure  the  most  beneficial  results  from  the 
labor  of  said  inmates. 

Twenty-first — To  require  the  superintendent,  warden  or  keeper 
to  keep  such  book  or  books  of  account  as  shall  fully  and  in  detail 
show  all  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  said  institution,  and  to 
require  a  report  of  the  condition  thereof  from  time  to  time. 

Twenty-second —  The  common  council  shall  have  power  to  require 
the  board  of  police  commissioners  to  detail  a  sufficient  number  of 
men  from  the  police  force  of  the  city  to  take  charge  of  the  public 
pounds  of  said  city,  and  to  properly  enforce  the  poi:^nd  ordinances 
thereof,  and  to  provide  for  the  election  of  one  or  more  pound- 
keepers,  and  to  provide  for  the  payment  of  such  pound-keepers, 
either  by  salary  or  fees,  or  partly  by  both,  and  to  make  all  neces- 
sary rules  and  regulations  for  the  enforcement  of  any  pound  ordi- 
nance of  said  city. 

Twenty-third  —  To  allow  dummies  or  steam  engines  to  be  used 
on  the  street  railways  of  said  city,  by  ordinance  and  contract  with 
said  railway  companies,  and  to  direct  the  kind  of  dummies  to  be 
used,  the  time  and  speed  of  running  the  same,  and  the  price  at 
which  passengers  shall  be  conveyed :  Provided^  the  fare  on  such 
railways  shall  not  exceed  five  cents  for  each  passenger  within  the 
present  or  future  limits  of  said  city,  nor  exceeding  eight  cents 


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from  any  point  within  such  limits  to  any  point  not  more  than  three 
miles  outside  such  limits ;  also  at  any  time  to  order  a  total  or  partial 
discontinuance  of  the  use  of  such  dummies  and  steam  engines  in 
said  city :  Provided^  also,  that  it  shall  require  three-fourths  of  all 
the  aldermen  elected  to  pass  any  such  ordinances  or  make  any  such 
contract:  And  provided  further,  that  no  privilege  to  use  or  run 
dummies  or  steam  engines,  or  other  than  horse  motive  power,  shall 
ever  be  allowed  upon  any  street  or  horse  railway  except  the  party 
or  parties,  company  or  corporations  asking  for  such  privilege 
shall  first  enter  into  and  execute  an  irrevocable  contract  with  the 
city  of  Chicago,  with  approved  bond  in  a  sum  not  less  than  one 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  to  forever  thereafter  give  and  pay  over 
into  the  city  treasury,  at  the  end  of  each  and  every  month,  one-fifth 
of  each  and  every  fare  collected  and  received  by  said  company, 
party  or  corporation,  from  persons  or  passengers  carried  or  trans- 
ported over  said  railway,  and  for  tickets  and  commutation.  Such 
monthly  payments  to  be  accompanied  by  a  sworn  statement  of  the 
president  or  secretary  of  the  company,  showing  the  actual  amount 
received  during  the  month  by  them  for  fares,  tickets,  or  commu- 
tations, and  the  books  of  said  party,  company  or  corporation  to 
be  thereafter  at  all  times  open  to  inspection  by  any  duly  author- 
ized city  official. 

Twenty-fourth  —  That  the  common  council  shall  have  power  and 
authority  to  regulate  and  control  the  slaughtering  of  all  animals 
in  the  city  or  within  four  miles  thereof,  intended  for  consumption 
or  exposed  for  sale  in  the  city,  and  to  enforce  by  additional  ordi- 
nances any  regulation,  contract  or  law  heretofore  made  on  the 
subject. 

Twenty-fifth  —  To  adjust  and  settle  with  property  owners  any 
differences  arising  by  reason  of  any  changes  made  in  the  dock 
lines  by  the  council,  on  the  Chicago  river  or  its  branches,  if  in 
its  discretion  the  same  may  be  deemed  just  and  proper.     ' 

Twenty-sixth  —  To  make,  publish,  ordain,  amend  and,  repeal  all 
such  ordinances,  by-laws  and  police  regulations,  not  contrary  to 
the  constitution  of  this  State,  for  the  good  government  and  order 
of  the  city,  and  the  trade  and  commerce  thereof,  as  may  be  neces- 
sary or  expedient  to  carry  into  effect  the  powers  vested  in  the 
common  council,  or  of  any  officer  of  said  city,  by  this  act,  and 
enforce  observance  of  all  rules,  ordinances,  by-laws,  police,  sani- 


6.] 


MISCELLANEOUS.  29 


tary  and  other  regulations  made  in  pursuance  of  this  act,  or  the  acr, 
to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  the  amendments  thereto,  or  any 
other  act  concerning  said  city,  by  punishment,  fine  or  imprison- 
ment in  the  bridewell  or  house  of  correction,  or  both,  m  the  discre- 
tion of  the  magistrate  or  court  before  which  conviction  may  be 
had:  Provided,  however,  such  fine  shall  not  exceed  five  hundred 
dollars,  nor  the  imprisonment  two  years. 

Twenty-seventh  — 1^0  prohibit  the  piling  of  lumber  within  the 
fire  limits,  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  aldermen  elected. 


CHAPTEE    YI. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 


Section  1.  Whenever  any  permit  shall  be  issued  by  the  board 
of  public  works,  granting  to  any  person  or  corporation  the  use  or 
■occupancy  of  any  street,  alley  or  highway,  or  part  thereof,  for 
building  purposes,  for  the  depositing  therein  of  material,  or  other 
proper  purpose,  said  board  shall  take  from  such  person  or  corpora- 
tion a  bond,  in  an  adequate  amount,  with  two  good  and  sufficient 
sureties,  conditioned  that  such  person  or  corporation  shall  be  liable 
for  any  and  all  damages  occasioned  by  such  use  or  occupation,  or 
resulting  therefrom;  and  in  every  case  of  recovery  and  judgment 
ac^ainst  the  city,  in  any  wise  growing  out  of  permitting  or  suffer- 
ino-  such  use  or  occupation,  or  which  resulted  therefrom,  where  due 
notice  of  the  pendency  of  such  suit  has  been  given,  such  judg- 
ment shall  be  conclusive,  not  only  as  to  the  damages  recovered, 
but  as  to  the  liability  of  the  party  or  corporation  and  sureties. 

Sec  2  Whenever  in  any  case,  injury  shall  be  sustained  by 
any  individual,  in  consequence  of  any  defect  in  or  obstruction 
upon  any  sidewalk,  along  the  premises  of  a  non-resident  owner 
whose  duty  it  is  hereby  declared  to  be  to  keep  the  same,  at  all 
times  in  a  good  and  thorough  state  of  repair,  and  a  suit  for  dam- 
ages be  commenced  against  the  city,  the  city  of  Chicago  may  attach 
such  premises  and  hold  the  same  to  abide  the  judgment  in  the 
case,  :and  in  case  of  a  judgment  being  had  therefor  against  the  city, 
the  city  may  proceed  under  such  attachment  against  said  premises 


30  '  CITY    CHARTEE.  [CH. 

in  the  same  manner  as  provided  by  law  for  creditors  against  non- 
resident debtors,  and  the  judgment  against  the  city  shall  he  prima 
facie  evidence  in  such  suit  or  proceeding  :  Provided,  however,  That 
such  non-resident  owner  may,  by  filing  a  bond  as  in  other  cases  of 
attachment,  obtain  a  release  of  such  premises  from  such  attach- 
ment, and  in  case  of  such  owner  desiring  a  release  of  such  premises 
before  the  determination  of  such  suit  against  the  city,  he  may  do  so 
upon  giving  and  executing  his  bond,  with  security,  to  be  approved 
by  the  mayor,  for  the  amount  of  damage  claimed,  conditioned  to 
hold  harmless  the  city  against  whatever  judgment  may  be  ren- 
dered in  the  case. 

Sec.  3.  Whenever  any  board  or  ofl&cer  of  the  city  shall  let  any 
work  or  improvement,  which  shall  require  the  digging  up,  use  or 
occupancy  of  any  street,  alley,  highway,  or  public  grounds  of  said 
city,  there  shall  be  inserted  in  said  contracts  substantial  covenants 
requiring  such  contractor,  during  the  night  time,  to  put  up  and 
maintain  such  barriers  and  lights  as  will  effectually  prevent  the 
happening  of  any  accident  in  consequence  of  such  digging  up,  use 
or  occupancy  of  said  street,  alley,  highway,  or  public  grounds,  for 
which  the  city  might  be  liable,  and  also  such  other  covenants  and 
conditions  as  experience  has  or  may  prove  necessary  to  save  the 
city  harmless  from  damages.  And  also  to  provide,  in  such  con- 
tracts, that  the  party  contracting  with  the  city  shall  be  liable  for 
all  damages  occasioned  by  the  digging  up,  use  or  occupancy  of 
the  street,  alley,  highway,  or  public  grounds,  or  which  may  result 
therefrom,  or  which  may  result  from  the  carelessness  of  such 
contractor,  his  agents,  employes,  or  workmen. 

Sec.  4.  Whenever  any  work  or  improvement  is  let  by  contract 
to  any  person  or  persons,  firm  or  corporation,  the  board  or  officers 
of  the  city  letting  the  same  shall,  in  all  cases,  take  a  bond  from 
such  person,  persons,  or  firm  or  corporation,  with  good  and  suffi- 
cient sureties,  in  such  amount  as  shall  not  only  be  adequate  to 
insure  the  performance  of  the  work  in  the  time  and  manner 
required  in  such  contract,  but  also  to  save,  and  indemnify,  and  keep 
harmless  the  said  city  against  all  liabilities,  judgments,  costs  and 
expenses  which  may  in  anywise  come  against  said  city,  in  conse- 


6.}  "^MISCELLANEOFS.  ,'    ^f  j;  Hi 

quepce  of  the  granting  of  such  contract,  or  whicli  may 'dn  aHyTOS?  fv 
result  from  the  carelessness  or  neglect  of  said  yerson,  ,firi3.  or  cor- 
poration, or  his  or  its  agents,  employes  or  workmen,  ill  any  respect 
whatever ;  and  in  every  such  case  where  judgment  is  recovered 
against  the  city  by  reason  of  the  carelessness  or  negligence  of  such 
person,  firm  or  corporation  so  contracting,  or  his,  their  or  its  agents, 
employes  or  workmen,  and  when  due  notice  has  been  given  of  the 
pendency  of  such  suit,  such  judgment  shall  be  conclusive  against 
sach  person,  firm  or  corporation,  and  his,  or  their,  or  its  sureties 
on  such  bond,  not  only  as  to  the  amount  of  damages,  but  as  to 
their  liability. 

Sec.  5.  The  city  clerk  shall  be  authorized  to  appoint  one  or 
more  deputies,  subject,  however,  to  the  approval  of  the  common 
council.  Such  deputies,  after  confirmation  by  the  council,  and 
after  having  taking  the  oath  required  to  be  taken  by  the  clerk, 
may,  in  case  of  the  sickness  or  absence  of  the  clerk,  perform  all 
the  duties  imposed  by  law,  or  any  ordinance  of  the  city,  on  said 
clerk,  and  shall  likewise  be  subject  to  the  same  liabilities  and 
penalties. 

No  ordinance  shall  be  finally  adopted  by  common  council  until 
the  same  shall  be  engrossed  by  the  clerk,  unless  otherwise  ordered 
by  three-fourths  of  all  the  aldermen  elected,  except  such  orders 
and  ordinances  as  are  sent  to  the  council  by  the  board  of  public 
works,  relating  to  public  improvements  paid  for  by  special  assess- 
ments. 

The  city  clerk  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  not  less  than 
twenty-five  hundred  dollars  nor  more  than  three  thousand  five 
hundred  dollars,  to  be  fixed  by  the  common  council. 

Sec.  6.  The  clerk  shall  record  all  orders  and  ordinances  passed 
by  the  common  council,  in  a  proper  book  or  books,  with  proper 
indexes ;  and  transcripts  from  such  books,  certified  by  him  under 
the  corporate  seal,  shall  be  evidence  in  all  courts  and  places,  in 
like  manner  as  if  the  originals  were  produced. 

Sec.  7.  Every  ordinance,  resolution,  order  or  by-law  of  tlje 
.oommon  council  may  be  read  in  evidence  in  all  courts  and  legal 


32  ^r.''    '^  CITY   CnARTER.  [CH. 


V:pMc9&'fii%Vfrom''tlie  votume  of  ordinances  published,  or  to  be 
published',  hy.priX^r:  of  the  said  common  council,  without  any- 
proof  pf'Che"pas3ag''e"  or  publication  thereof ;  but  such  publication 
shall  only  hQ  prima  facie  evidence  of  its  passage,  or  that  the  same 
has  been,  duly  published  in  the  corporation  newspaper. 

Sec.  8.  All  land  surveyor?,  licensed  by  the  board  of  public 
works  in  pursuance  of  section  six  of  chapter  six  of  the  revised 
charter,  approved  February  13,  1863,  shall  have  the  same  powers 
to  make  surveys  within  the  county  of  Cook  as  they  may  have 
within  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  like  effect  and  validity  shall  be 
given  to  their  acts,  plats  and  surveys  as  are  or  may  be  given  to 
those  of  the  county  surveyor. 

Sec.  9.  So  much  of  section  twenty-five  of  chapter  six,  of 
section  twenty-two  of  chapter  ten,  of  section  fourteen  of  chapter 
thirteen,  of  section  thirteen  of  chapter  fifteen,  of  the  revised  char- 
ter of  said  city,  approved  February  13,  1863,  and  so  much  of 
'Section  thirty-three  of  an  act  approved  February  16,  1865,  entitled 
*'  An  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  An  act  to  reduce  the  charter  of 
the  city  of  Chicago,  and  the  several  acts  amendatory  thereof,  into 
one  act,  and  to  revise  the  same,' "  approved  February  13,  1863,  as 
requires  the  warrants  therein  described  to  be  countersigned  by  the 
president  or  acting  president  of  the  board  of  public  works,  the 
president  or  acting  president  of  the  board  of  police,  the  president 
of  the  board  of  education,  the  president  or  vice  president  of  the 
board  of  guardians  of  the  reform  school,  and  by  the  president  of 
the  board  of  police  and  the  mayor,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby 
repealed. 

Sec,  10.  That  the  latter  clause  of  section  sixteen  of  chapter 
nineteen  of  the  revised  charter,  approved  February  13,  1863,  be 
and  the  same  is  hereby  so  amended  as  to  read  as  follows  :  "  Fifteen, 
cents  shall  be  taxed  to  each  lot  against  which  judgment  is  rendered^ 
five  cents  to  be  for  clerk's  and  judge's  fees,  and  ten  cents  for 
advertising  notice  of  sale." 

Sec.  11.  In  case  of  a  vacancy  occun-ing  in  any  office  created  by 
this  act,  the  mayor  shall,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 


7.]  SCHOOLS.  33 

the  council,  fill  the  sam6  for  the  unexpired  term,  if  the  same  be 
not  otherwise  herein  provided  for. 

Sec.  12.  All  of  the  land  now  owned  by  the  city  in  section 
twenty-seven  (27)  in  township  forty  (40)  north,  range  fourteen  east, 
in  Cook  county,  shall  be  added  to,  and  form  a  part  of,  Lincoln 
park,  and  for  the  purpose  of  connecting  the  same  with  said  park, 
the  city  may  acquire,  by  purchase,  gift  or  condemnation,  a  strip 
of  land  not  exceeding  three  hundred  feet  in  width,  lying  between 
said  land  and  said  park,  and  in  case  it  is  necessary  to  condemn, 
the  proceedings  shall  be  conducted  according  to  the  provisions 
of  the  charter  in  relation  to  condemning  lands  for  streets ;  but 
the  damages  allowed  shall  be  wholly  paid  by  taxation  on  the 
taxable  property  in  the  town  of  North  Chicago,  or  by  voluntary 
contribution. 

Sec.  13.  The  procedings,  n®tices  and  ordinances  of  said  city 
and  the  departments  thereof,  shall  be  published  in  the  newspaper 
printed  in  the  German  language  having  the  largest  daily  circula- 
tion in  said* city  as  fully  as  they  are  now  required  to  be  published 
in  the  corporation  newspaper :  Provided^  that  in  no  judicial  or 
other  proceeding  shall  the  publication  in  such  German  paper  be 
called  in  question,  either  as  to  the  fact  of  its  publication  or  to  the 
correctness  thereof 


CHAPTER    VII. 

SCHOOLS. 

Section  1.  The  common  council  shall  have  power,  when 
requested  by  the  board  of  education, 

First  —  Erect,  purchase  or  hire  buildings  suitable  for  school 
houses,  and  keep  the  same  in  repair. 

Second  —  Buy  and  lease  sites  for  school  houses,  with  the  neces- 
sary grounds. 

Tliird  —  Furnish  schools  with  the  necessary  fixtures,  furniture 
and  apparatus. 

Fourth  —  Establish,  support  and  maintain  schools,  and  supply 
3 


34  CITY    CHARTER.  [CH. 

the  inadequacy  of  the  school  fund  for  the  payment  of  the  city 
teachers,  erection  and  fencing  school  buildings,  from  school  taxes. 

Sec.  2.  The  board  of  education  shall  lay  off  and  divide  the 
city  into  school  districts,  and  from  time  to  time  alter  or  subdivide 
the  same,  or  create  new  ones,  as  circumstances  may  require. 

Sec.  3.  The  common  council  shall  have  power  annually  to  levy 
and  collect  a  school  tax,  including  the  amount  levied  for  a  sinking 
fund,  not  exceeding  five  mills  on  the  dollar  on  the  assessed 
value  of  all  real  and  personal  estate  in  the  city  made  taxable  by 
the  laws  of  this  State,  to  meet  the  expenses  of  purchasing  grounds 
for  school  houses,  erecting  and  repairing  school  houses,  supporting 
and  maintaining  schools,  and  payment  of  interest  on  school  bonds ; 
and  the  board  of  education  are  hereby  authorized,  unless  prohib- 
ited by  the  common  council,  to  continue  the  public  schools  not- 
withstanding any  deficiency  in  the  appropriation  and  tax  levied 
for  that  purpose  in  any  year ;  and,  to  provide  for  the  expense 
thereby  incurred,  the  comptroller  may,  with  the  sanction  of  the 
mayor  and  finance  committee  of  the  common  council,  .borrow  the 
necessary  money,  which  shall  be  repaid  out  of  the  school  tax  for 
the  next  year. 

Sec.  4.  The  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  receive  such 
annual  salary  as  shall  be  fixed  by  the  board  of  education,  at  the 
time  of  fixing  teachers'  salaries  each  year,  which  shall  not  be 
increased  or  diminished  thereafter  during  the  year. 

Sec.  5.  The  common  council  shall  have  the  power,  and  is 
hereby  authorized  to  provide  by  ordinance  for  issuing  and  nego- 
tiating the  bonds  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  paj^able,  principal  and 
interest,  in  New  York,  in  twenty  years  from  date,  and  bearing 
interest  at  a  rate  not  exceeding  seven  per  cent,  per  annum,  payable 
semi-annually,  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  five  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing  and  improving  school 
grounds,  and  erecting  or  constructing  school  houses.  Said  bonds 
shall  be  in  the  ordinary  form  of  bonds  of  said  city,  and  shall  be 
issued  in  denominations  of  five  hundred  or  one  thousand  dollars 
each,  as  the  mayor  and  comptroller  may  deem  for  the  best  interest 
of  the  city ;  and  an  annual  tax  of  not  exceeding  one-fourth  of  one 


7.]  SCHOOLS.  85 

mill  on  the  dollar,  on  the  assessed  value  of  all  taxable  real  and 
personal  estate  in  said  city,  shall  be  levied  and  collected  as  a  sink- 
ing fund  to  pay  said  bonds  at  their  maturity,  and  for  the  payment 
of  such  bonds  as  may  have  been  previously  issued  for  schools  or 
school  purposes.  Such  sinking  fund  when  collected  shall  be  in- 
vested first  in  school  bonds,  and  if  these  cannot  be  obtained,  then 
in  city  bonds.  "  .      ' 

Sec.  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  common  council  to  provide 
for  the  issuing  of  as  many  of  said  bonds  as  the  board  of  education 
may  require  from  time  to  time,  and  the  proceeds  of  said  bonds, 
when  sold,  shall  be  held  as  other  school  funds,  and  only  paid  out 
for  permanent  purchases  or  improvements  of  school  grounds,  and 
the  construction  of  new  school  buildings. 

Sec.  7.  The  board  of  education  shall  have  power  to  confer  the 
usual  collegiate  degrees,  whenever  they  shall  deem  it  best  for  the 
educational  interests  of  the  city,  and  to  prescribe  the  necessary  and 
proper  rules  for  the  same. 

Sec.  8.  The  board  of  education  shall  elect,  bienniailly,  a  clerk, 
whose  office  shall  be  denominated  "clerk  of  the  board  of  educa- 
tion," and  whose  salary  shall  be  fixed  annually  by  said  board. 
The  duties  of  said  clerk  shall  consist  of  keeping  the  records  and 
minutes  of  the  board,  and  to  be  official  his  signature  must  be 
attached  to  them  on  the  books  and  records  of  the  board.  He  shall 
also  take  general  charge  of  the  rooms  of  the  board^  and  the  prop- 
erty contained  therein. 

Sec.  9.  The  common  council  is  empowered  to  establish  evening 
schools,  the  same  to  be  under  the  control  of  the  board  of  educa- 
tion, and  the  funds  for  their  support  to  be  raised  by  special  appro- 
priation by  the  common  council. 

Sec.  10.  All  laws  or  parts  of  laws  conflicting  or  inconsistent 
with  these  amendments,  are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  11.  This  act  shall  be  a  public  act  and  shall  be  in  forca 
from  and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  March  9,  1867. 


36  AMENDATORY   ACTS. 


AI^    ACT 

IN  REGARD   TO   THE    BOARD   OF   PUBLIC   WORKS    OP    THE    CITY   OF 

CHICAGO. 

Section  1,  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois  in 
the  General  Asse^fibly,  That  nothing  contained  in  any  act  of  this 
general  assembly  heretofore  passed,  shall  in  any  manner  be  con- 
strued so  as  to  repeal  section  sixteen  of  an  act  approved  February 
15th,  1865,  entitled  "  An  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  '  An  act  to 
reduce  the  charter  of  the  city  of  Chicago  and  the  several  acts 
amendatory  thereof  into  one  act,  and  to  revise  the  same,' "  ap- 
proved February  13th,  1863. 

Sec  2.  This  act  shall  be  a  public  act  and  take  effect  from  and 
after  its  passage. 

Approved  March  7,  1867. 


AE"    ACT 

In  amendment  of  and  supplementary  to  an  act  entitled  "An  Act  to  reduce  the 
•    Charter  of  the  City  of  Chicago,  and  the  several  acts  amendatory  thereof,  into 
one  act,  and  to  revise  the  same,"  approved  February  13th,  1863,  and  the  act 
amendatory  thereof,  approved  February  15th,  1865, 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois  represented  in  the 
General  Assembly: 

Section  1.  The  common  council  of  the  city  of  Chicago  shall 
have  power  to  establish  or  change  the  dock  lines  of  Chicago  river 
and  of  Chicago  harbor  so  as  to  facilitate  navigation  on  the  same ; 
to  cause  lamp  posts  to  be  erected  upon  any  of  the  streets  of  said 
city,  and  to  cause  water  and  gas  service  pipes,  with  their  necessary 
stop  cocks  and  other  fixtures,  to  be  constructed  and  laid  so  as  to 
connect  with  the  gas  or  water  mains  in  the  streets  of  said  city. 

|.  Sec.  2.  The  provisions  of  the  acts  to  which  this  is  supplement- 
ary and  amendatory,  as  to  the  manner  of  making  application  for 
any  improvement  to  be  executed  by  said  city,  are  hereby  made  to 
apply  to  the  improvements  specified  in  the  foregoing  section.  ■ 


PUBLIC    IMPROVEMENTS.  37 

Sec.  3.  Upon  receiving  an  application  for  the' making  of  any 
improvement,  the  doing  of  which  is  within  the  discretion  and  con- 
trol of  the  municipal  government  of  said  city,  excepting  sewers  and 
main  water  pipes,  the  said  board  shall  proceed  to  investigate  the 
same,  and  if  they  shall  determine  that  such  improvement  is  neces- 
sary and  proper,  they  shall  report  the  same  to  the  common  council, 
accompanied  with  a  statement  of  the  expense  thereof,  and  a  proper 
ordinance  or  order  directing  the  work,  and  shall  in  such  estimate 
specify  how  much  of  said  expense  in  their  opinion  may  be  prop- 
erly chargeable  to  real  estate  especially  benefited  by  such  im- 
provement, and  how  much  thereof  may  be  properly  chargeable  to 
and  paid  out  of  the  general  fund,  or  out  of  the  proceeds  of  any 
general  tax  authorized  to  be  levied  by  said  city.  Having  reported 
on  such  application,  and  recommending  that  the  improvement  be 
made,  or  disapproving  of  the  doing  of  it,  as  is  provided  for  in  the 
above  mentioned  act,  the  common  council  may  then,  in  either  case, 
order  the  doing  of  such  work,  or  the  making  of  such  public 
improvement,  after  having  first  obtained  from  said  board,  an 
estimate  of  the  expense  thereof,  and  in  such  order  specify  what 
amount  of  said  estimated  expense  shall  be  assessed  upon  the 
property  deemed  specially  benefited,  and  what  amount  shall  be 
chargeable  to  and  be  paid  in  of  the  proceeds  of  the  general  fund, 
or  out  of  the  proceeds  of  any  general  tax  authorized  to  be  levied 
by  said  city. 

Sec.  4.  Whenever  any  order  shall  be  passed  by  the  common 
council  of  said  city,  pursuant  to  the  authority  conferred  by  chapter 
seven  of  the  act  of  1863,  of  which  this  is  an  amendment,  for  the 
filling,  grading,  leveling,  paving,  curbing,  walling,  graveling, 
macadamizing,  planking  or  repairing  of  any  street,  lane,  alley  or 
highway,  or  for  the  construction,  reconstruction,  laying  or  relaying 
of  any  sidewalk,  or  any  private  drain,  or  for  the  making  of  any 
public  improvement  on  account  of  which  authority  is  given  by 
said  chapter  seven  (7)  to  levy  a  special  assessment  (excepting 
sewers  and  main  water  pipes),  or  whenever  any  such  order  shall 
be  so  passed,  for  the  estabhshing  or  changing  the  dock-lines 
of  Chicago  river  ^or  of  Chicago  harbor,  or  for  the  laying  of 
gas  or  water  service  pipes,  or  for  the  erection  of  lamp-posts, 
upon   any   of  the    streets    of    said   city,    the   commissioners   of 


38  AMENDATORY    ACTS. 


the  board  of  public  works  shall,  forthwith,  proceed  to  assess 
the  amounts  directed  by  the  common  council  to  be  assessed  for 
that  purpose,  with  the  costs  of  the  proceedings  therein,  upon  the 
real  estate  by  them  deemed  specially  benefited  by  any  such  im- 
provement, in  proportion,  as  nearly  as  may  be,  to  the  benefit 
resulting  thereto.  The  assessment  in  such  cases  shall  be  made 
and  returned,  and  may  be  confirmed  and  collected  in  the  manner 
provided  by  chapter  seven  of  the  act  above  mentioned,  so  far  as 
the  provisions  of  said  chapter  are  applicable,  and  excepting  in 
cdses  where  such  order  of  council  shall  require  the  appropriation 
or  condemnation  of  any  land  or  real  estate,  according  to  the  pro- 
visions of  sections  twenty-three  and  twenty-four  of  said  chapter. 

Sec.  5.  Under  the  provisions  of  section  34  of  chapter  2  of  the 
act  of  which  this  is  supplementary,  approved  February  13,  1863, 
the  common  council  is  hereby  authorized,  in  the  event  that  any 
improvement  shall  be  ordered  after  the  making  of  the  annual 
appropriation,  some  portions  of  the  expense  of  which  shall  be 
assessed  by  the  commissioners  of  the  board  of  public  works,  on 
some  lot  or  lots  of  land  owned  by  said  city,  to  appropriate  and 
borrow  money  for  the  payment  of  such  assessments,  as  is  provided 
for  other  cases  enumerated  in  said  section. 

Sec.  6.  Upon  the  passage  of  any  order  referred  to  in  the 
fourth  section  of  this  act,  the  board  of  public  works  may,  in  their 
discretion,  cause  said  improvement  to  be  made,  and  paid  for  out 
of  any  moneys  in  the  treasury  at  their  disposal,  and  afterwards 
cause  the  expense  thereof,  together  with  all  costs,  to  be  reimbursed 
by  a  special  assessment,  to  be  levied  and  collected  as  in  other 
cases. 

Sec.  7.  Section  thirty-nine  of  chapter  seven  of  the  act  of 
1863,  of  which  this  is  amendatory,  is  hereby  amended  by  striking 
out  therefrom  the  words  "  of  all  improvements  at  the  intersections 
of  streets  or  alleys,  or  of  streets  and  alleys  (excepting  sidewalks 
and  area  or  street  walls)." 

Sec.  8.  Sections  one,  three  and  five  of  the  act  approved  Feb- 
ruary 15th,  1865,  in  amendment  of  said  act,  approved  February 
13th,  1863,  are  hereby  repealed. 


RE  If  OEM    SCHOOL.  '  39 


Sec.  9.     This  act  shall  be  deemed  a  public  act,  and  shall  take 
effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 


Approved  Mardi  6,  1867. 


A.^  ACT 

m  REFERENCE  TO  THE  REFORM  SCHOOL  OF  THE  CITY  OF  CHICAGO, 
STATE  OF  ILLINOIS. 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly,  That  warrants  for  commitment 
of  any  child  to  the  Chicago  reform  school,  shall  run  in  the  name 
of  the  people  of  the  State  of  Illinois.  And  all  warrants  on  which 
any  boy  has  been  heretofore  committed  may  be  amended  by  the 
authority  issuing  the  same,  or  their  successors  in  office,  by  insert- 
ing the  words,  "  The  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois"  over  such 
mittimus,  and  thereafter  the  same  effect  shall  be  given  to  such  mit- 
timus as  if  such  words  had  been  originally  inserted. 

Sec.  2.  Parents  and  guardians  are  hereby  permitted  and 
empowered  to  place  in  said  school,  by  permission  of  the  guardians 
and  superintendent  of  said  school,  any  child  of  theirs,  or  under 
their  control,  between  the  ages  of  six  (6)  and  sixteen  (16)  years, 
and  when  said  child  is  so  received,  it  shall  be  subject  to  the  same 
rules,  and  may  be  held  for  the  same  time,  and  on  the  same  terms 
in  every  respect  as  if  it  had  been  committed  to  said  school  by  the 
provisions  of  law  in  reference  to  said  school,  and  shall  be  dis- 
charged fi'om  said  school  in  the  same  manner  as  by  law  the  other 
inmates  of  said  school  are  discharged,  and  said  parent  or  guardian 
shall  pay  the  officers  of  said  school,  for  the  use  of  the  reform  school 
fund,  such  sums  annually  as  may  be  agreed  upon  by  the  parties. 

Sec.  3.  If  any  officer  or  other  person  procure  the  escape  of  any 
boy  or  girl,  committed  to  the  Chicago  reform  school,  or  connive  at 
or  aid,  conceal  or  assist  in  any  such  escape,  or  assist  any  person  after 
such  escape,  he,  she  or  they  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  pay  a 


40  AMENDATORY    ACTS. 

fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  ($100),  and  be  confined  in 
the  county  jail  not  exceeding  six  (6)  months. 

Sec.  4.  That  section  seven  (7),  of  chapter  fourteen  (14),  of  an 
act  approved  February  13th,  1863,  entitled  "  An  act  to  reduce  the 
city  of  Chicago,  and  the  several  acts  in  amendment  thereof  into 
one  act,  and  revise  the  same,"  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed, 
and  that  the  duties  of  commissioner,  imposed  by  section  eight  (8) 
of  said  act,  be  performed  by  either  of  the  judges  of  the  superior 
or  circuit  court  in  said  city,  and  whenever  any  police  magistrate 
or  justice  of  the  peace  of  said  city,  shall  have  brought  before  him 
any  boy  or  girl,  within  the  ages  of  six  (6)  or  sixteen  (16)  years, 
who  he  has  reason  to  believe  is  a  vagrant,  or  is  destitute  of  proper 
parental  care,  or  is  growing  up  in  mendicancy,  ignorance^  idleness 
or  vice,  he  shall  cause  such  person,  together  with  the  warrant  on 
which  he  was  arrested,  and  the  list  of  witnesses  which  may  be 
necessary  to  establish  the  situation  and  condition  of  such  boy  or  girl, 
to  be  transmitted  to  one  of  the  judges  of  the  superior  or  circuit 
court,  either  in  term  time  or  vacation,  and  thereupon  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  such  judge  to  proceed  in  the  same  manner,  and  give  the 
same  notice  that  said  commissioner  is  in  said  section  eight  (8) 
required  to  give,  and  if  vipon  such  examination  said  judge  shall 
be  of  opinion  that  the  said  boy  or  girl  is  a  proper  subject  for  com- 
mitment to  the  reform  school,  and  that  his  moral  welfare,  and  the 
good  of  society,  require  that  he  should  be  sent  to  said  school  for 
instruction,  employment,  and  reformation,  he  shall  so  decide,  and 
shall  direct  the  clerk  of  the  court  of  which  he  is  judge  to  make 
out  a  warrant  of  commitment  to  said  reform  school,  and  such 
child  shall  thereupon  be  committed,  and  such  judge  and  the  clerk 
of  the  court  shall  receive  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  the  same  fees 
that  are  prescribed  by  law  for  fees  in  civil  cases. 

Sec.  5.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  the  date  of  its 
passage. 

Approved  March  5,  1867. 


INDEX. 


APPROPRIATION  for  Fourth  of  July  celebration,  etc.,  .  .  .25 

ASSESSMENTS,  when  and  how  made,       .  .  .  .      5,  6,  7 

special  assessments,    .  .  .  .  .  37,38 

ACTS   REPEALED.     Part  of  sec.  25,  chap.  6,  of  Revised  Charter  of  1863,  .     22 

part  of  sec.  22,  chap.  10,  of  Revised  Ciiarter  of  1863,    .                 .  32 

part  of  sec.  13,  chap.  15,  of  Revised  Charter  of  1863,              .  .     32 

part  of  sec.  33,  of  act  of  1 865,          ....  32 

all  inconsistent  or  conflicting  laws,           .                 .                 .  .35 

sees.  1,  3  and  5,  of  act  of  1865,       ....  38 

ACTS   AMENDED.     Part  of  sec.  16,  chap.  19,  of  Revised  Charter  of  1863, 
sec.  39,  of  chap.  "J,  of  Revised  Charter  of  1863, 

ACTS  NOT   REPEALED.     Sec.  16,  of  act  of  1865,  .  . 

X 

ALDERMEN  not  to  receive  compensation,  .  .  .        ' 

nor  be  parties  to  contracts  with  city, 

ASSESSORS.     Common  Council  to  appoint,  .  .  ". 

qualifications  of,  . 

assessors  and  commissioner  of  taxes  to  constitute  "  board  of  assessors, 
to  take  oaths,  ..... 

to  file  bonds,      •  .  .  .      ,  . 

bonds  to  be  approved  by  mayor,  . 

authorized  to  administer  oaths,        .... 
to  value  real  and  personal  estate  yearly, 
commissioner  of  taxes  to  furnish  schedules  to  assessors, 
commissioner  of  taxes  to  take  assessment  list   or  collector's  books  of 

previous  year  as  a  guide,  .... 

appraisal  to  be  filed  on  or  before  the  1st  Monday  of  August, 
unless  time  extended  by  council,       .... 
to  assess  real  or  personal  estate  at  its  true  value,    . 
to  assess  property  in  tlie  district  where  found, 
this  to  include  proportion  of  rolling  stock  of  railroads,  etc. , 
the  proportion  to  be  ascertained  in  accordance  with  statutes, 
to  be  furnished  with  necessary  blanks, 
to  call  at  office,  place  of  business  or  residence  of  each  person  required 

to  list  his  property,  .... 

to  call  at  ofBce  of  every  corporation, 
person  or  corporation  so  listing,  to   enter  true  and  correct  statement  on 

blanks  provided,  .  . 

such  statement  to  be  signed,  and  verified  by  oath  or  affidavit, 
on  refusal  to  list,  ..... 
on  refusal  to  swear,  ..... 

in  case  of  absence  or  sickness, 
when  assessment  completed,   to   be   filed   in  office   of  commissioner  of 

taxes,  ..... 


4, 


32 
38 

36 

16 
16 

4 
4 
4 
4 
4 
4 
5 
5 
5 

5 
5 
5 
6 
5 
5 
5 
5 

5 
5 

6 
6 
6 
6 
6 


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INDEX. 


ASSESSORS  —  continued. 

and  fix  day  for  hearing  objections,    ....  6 

person  aggrieved  may  appear  and  make  objections,                  .  .6,7 

board  of  assessors  to  meet  and  revise  assessments,          .                .  Y 

board  of  assessors  to  have  power  to  make  corrections,            .  .       1 

board  of  assessors  to  continue  in  session  twenty  days,    .                .  7 

after  which,  no  change  to  be  made  nor  tax  refunded,               .  .    -  7 

a  majority  of  board  to  be  a  quorum,                  ...  7 

tax  lists  to  be  signed  by  assessors  and  commissioner  of  taxes,  .       8 

which  shall  constitute  the  only  record,             ...  8 
board  of  assessors  to  perform  all  duties  in  relation  to  assessing  property,      9 

have  the  same  powers,  etc.,  as  town  assessors,       .                .  .9 

and  be  subject  to  same  liabilities,      ....  9 

State  laws  for  assessment  to  apply,  etc.,                   .                .  .9 

unless  in  conflict  with  chapter  one,                  ...  9 

personai  property,  how  listed,                   .                .                .  .9 
in  case  of  commencing  merchand'sing  after  April  1st,  party  to  make  out 

sworn  statement  of  probable  average  value,    .                .  .9 

such  statement  to  be  delivered  to  commissioner  of  taxes,               .  9 

and  proportionate  amount  to  be  paid  to  collector,   .                .  9,10 

similar  provisions  in  relation  to  corporations,                  .                 .  10 

in  case  of  person,  firm   or    corporation  failing    to   comply,  assessors  to 

assess,  and  add  ten  per  cent.,  ....  10 
in  case  of  omission  to  assess  property,  arrearages  to  be  charged,  and  six 

per  cent,  interest,       -  .  .  .  .10 

BOARD  OF  ASSESSORS.     Of  whom  constituted,          .                .  .4 

to  meet  and  revise  assessments,         .                .                .                .  1 

to  have  power  to  make  corrections,           .                .                .  .  .      7 

to  continue  in  session  twenty  days,  ....  7 

after  which,  no  change  to  be  made,           .                .                .  .7 

majority  to  be  a  quorum,                   ....  7 

to  perform  all  the  duties  in  relation  to  assessments,                 .  .       9 

BOARD  OF  HEALTH.     Of  whom  to  be  constituted,               .                .  21 

how  appointed,           .                .                .                 .                .  .21 

nature  of  powers  of,  .  .  .  .  .21 

may  enact  by-laws,  etc.,             ....  21,22 

board  to  be  divided  into  three  classes,              ...  22 

vacancies  in,  how  filled,              .                .                .                .  .22 

salaries  of,  .  .  .  .  .  .22 

to  take  oath  and  give  bond,        .                .                .                .  .22 

may  be  removed  for  cause,                .                .                 .                .  22 

annual  statement  of  expenditures,  etc.,  when  to  be  made,      .  .     22 
organization  of,  when  and  where  to  be  made,  .                .                .23 

secretary  of,  how  appointed,     .                  .                .                 .  .23 

secretary  of,  duties  of,       .                 .                 .                 .                 .  23 

board  of  police  to  appoint  additional  patrolmen  as  a  sanitary  squad,  23 

conditions  of  such  appointment,                .                 .                 .  .23 

statement  of  expenses,  etc.,  to  be  made  to  comptroller,  when,      .  '     23 

how  expenses  to  be  provided  for,               .                 .                 .  .23 

president  or  acting  president  to  countersign  warrants,        .             .  2?> 

extra  powers  of,  in  case  of  pestilence,  etc.,               .                 .  23,  24 
common  council  may  order  borrowingof  money  in  case  of  pestilence,etc,     24 

violations  of  health  ordinance,  how  punished,                  .                 .  '24 

acts  and  parts  of  acts,  repealed  or  continued  in  force,             .  .     24 

council  to  direct  board  of  health  to  let  scavengering,     .                .  26 

BOARD  OF  POLICE  to  recommend  additional  patrolmen,                .  .17 

to  recommend  additional  sergeants,   ....  17 

to  devote  entire  time,  if  requisite,  to  duties,           .                   .  .17 

salaries  of  board  of  police,  officers,  etc.,          .           '     .                .  17 


INDEX 


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BOARD  OF  TOJACE  — continued. 

may  employ  clerks,    .                .                 .                .                .  .11 

custodian  may  dispose  of  stolen  property,       .                .                .  17,  18 

proceeds,  how  disposed  of,         .                 .                 .                 .  .18 

not  lawful  for  others  than  officers  and  patrolmen  to  wear  stars,  etc.,  18 

to  regulate  construction  of  chimneys,        .                .                .  .19 

to  regulate  boilers,  stoves,  etc.,        ....  19 

to  regulate  deposit  of  ashes,      .                .                .                .  .19 

to  regulai  e  the  carrying  on  of  manufactories,  ...  19 

to  regulate  the  sale  or  use  of  fireworks,   .                .                .  .19 

to  demolish  dangerous  buildings,  etc.,              ...  19 
to  establish  grades  in  office  of  assistant  fire  marshals,             .  .     19 
repairs  of  fire  engines,  powers  of  board  of  police  in  relation  to,  19 
repairs  of  fire  apparatus,  powers  of  board  of  police  in  relation  to,  .     19 
repairs  of  fire  alarm  telegraph,  powers  of  board  of  police  in  relation  to,     19 
origin  of  fires,  board  of  police  to  inquire  into,         .                 .  .19 
;    common  council  to  appoint  additional  police   commissioner   on  recom- 
mendation of  board  of  underwriters,                 .                .  .20 
duties  of  such  commissioner,                  ...  20 
term  of  office  of,              .                .                .                .  .20 

(•:  •            shall  take  oath  and  execute  bond,          .                .                .  20 

salary  of,  how  fixed,        .                .                .                .  .20 

salary  of,  by  whom  to  be  paid,  .  .  .20 

when  such  commissioner  considered  qualified,              .  20,  21 

vacancies  in  board  of  poHce,  how  tilled,           .                .■               .  21 

board  of  police,  annual  report  of,              .                .                .  .21 

to  appoint  sanitary  squad,                  ....  23 

BOARD  OF  PUBLIC  "WORKS,  commissioners  of,  when  and  how  appointed,       11 
term  of  office,     .  '.  .  .  .  •  H 

salaries  of,    .  .  .  .  .  .  .12 

additional  powers  of,         .  .  .  .  12,  13,  14,  16 

Duties  of,  as  to  dock  lines,         .  .  .  .  .12 

as  to  sidewalks,       .  .  .  .  .       12,  13 

in  default  of  contractors,  .  .  .  .  .12 

as  to  gas  or  water  service  pipes,  .  .  12,  13,  16 

as  to  improvements  of  streets,       .  .  .  13,  15 

as  to  general  improvements,  . 

as  to  permits,  . 

as  to  contracts, 

as  to  liability  for  damages  in  relation  to, 

as  to  requiring  bonds, 

as  to  estimates  for  benefits, 

as  to  paying  for  public  works  out  of  general  fund, 

as  to  public  sewers,         .  -   . 

as  to  special  assessments, 
suit  may  be  maintained  against  owner  of  premises, 
duties  of,  as  to  damages  on  unpaid  assessments, 
duties  of,  as  to  levying  a  tax  for  certain  improvements, 
council  to  direct  board  of  public  works  to  let  street  cleaning,  etc., 
land  surveyors  appointed  by  board  of  public  works,  powers  of,    . 
an  act  in  relation  to  board  of  public  works, 
duties  of,  as  to  special  assessments, 

duties  of,  as  to  improvements  ordered  after  making  of  annual  appropri- 
ation, .... 

BONDS.     Assessors  to  file,  .... 
assessors'  bonds  to  be  approved  by  mayor, 
commissioner  of  taxes  to  file  bonds, 
tax  commissioner's  bond  to  be  approved  by  mayor, 
non-resident  owners  to  give  bonds  in  case  of  release, 
such  bonds  to  be  approved  by  mayor, 


31 
.     29 

30 

.     30 

29,  30 

.     16 

13 

.     12 

13 

.      14 

14 

14,  16 

.      26 

32 

.      36 

37,  38 

38 

4 
4 
3 
3 
30 


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INDEX 


BRIDEWELL.     As  to  bridewell  grounds, 
as  to  purchase  of  other  grounds  for, 
as  to  payment  for  same, 
as  to  rules  for  governing  same, 
as  to  wardens,  etc.,  furnishing  report  to  council,     . 

BUILDIN&S.     As  to  construction  of, 

BY-LAWS.     May  be  read  in  evidence, 

without  proof  of  passage  or  publication, 

publication  only  prima  facie  evidence  of  passage,   . 
CEMETERIES.     As  to  intermeuts, 

as  to  vacation  of,         . 

as  to  extinguishing  titles  of  lot  owners, 
CITY   CLERK  to  seal  and  countersign  tax  warrants, 

to  have  power  to  appoint  deputies, 

subject  to  approval  of  council, 

deputies  to  be  confirmed  by  council, 

deputies,  powers  of,   . 

deputies,  liabilities  and  penalties  of, 

to  engross  ordiuances  and  orders, 

except  in  certain  cases, 

salary  of,     . 

to  record  orders  and  ordinances  in  proper  books, 

transcripts  of  such  books  to  be  evidence, 

CITY    HALL.     As  to  purchasing  ground  for  erection  of, 
as  to  levying  taxes  therefor, 

COLLECTOR.     Tax  warrants  to  be  directed  to, 

tax  lists,  with  warrants,  to  be  delivered  to, 

COMMISSIONER  OF  TAXES.     When  and  how  appointed, 
qualifications  of,  .  .  . 

to  take  oath  of  office, 

to  file  bond,         .  .  .  .  • 

bond  to  be  approved  by  mayor, 
salary  to  be  fixed  in  appropriation  bill, 
to  divide  city  into  assessment  districts, 
assessment  districts  to  be  approved  by  common  council, 
districting  to  be  subject  to  modification  or  alteration  only  on  a  vote  of 

three-fourths  of  the  aldermen  elected, 
to  keep  suitable  records  and  books,    . 
to  have  power  to  appoint  clerks, 
number  of  clerks  to  be  limited  by  council, 
salaries  of  clerks  to  be  fixed  by  council,   . 
duties  of  clerks,  .... 
commissioner  of  taxes  and  assessors  to  constitute  board  of  assessors 
commissioner  to  be  ex  officio  president  of  board  of  assessors, 
authorized  to  administer  oaths,  .... 
assessors,  under  direction  and  supervision  of  commissioner  of  taxes,  to 

value  real  and  personal  estate  yearly, 
to  furnish  schedules  to  assessors, 
to  take  assessment  'ist  or  collector's  list  of  previous  year  as  a  guide, 
appraisal  to  be  filed  in  office  of  commissioner  of  taxes  on  or  before  1st 

Monday  in  August,       ..... 
unless  time  extended  by  council, 
assessment,  when  completed,  to  be  filed  in  office  of  commissioner  of 

taxes,  .  .  .  .  ~.  . 

to  give  notice  of  time  and  place  of  hearing  objections, 
board  of  assessors  to  meet  and  revise  assessments, 
board  of  assessors  to  have  power  to  make  corrections,  etc.,  . 
board  of  assessors  to  continue  in  session  twenty  days, 


I  N  DE  X.  45 


COMMISSIONER   OF   1  AXES  —  coTdinued. 

after  whicli,  no  change  to  be  made  nor  assessment  refunded,  .  .       1 

a  majority  of  board  to  be  a  quorum,  .  .  .  .  t 

on  completion  of  revision,  commissioner  of  taxes  to  enter  complete  list 

of  taxable  real  estate  in  proper  books,  ,.  .  .7 

also,  list  of  taxable  personal  estate,  ....  7 

such  books  to  constitute  the  tax  lists,        .  .  ,  .7 

commissioner  to  add  up  said  books,    ....  1 

and  enter  aggregate  amount  on  last  ^age,  .  .  .1 

tax  lists  to  be  signed  by  assessors  and  commissioner  of  taxes,  .  8 

and  be  left  in  custody  of  commissioner  of  taxes,       .  .  .8 

they  shall  constitute  the  only  record,  ...  8 

tax  commissioner  to  estimate  amount  of  the  several  taxes  levied  by 

council  and  compute  them  as  one  tax,  .  .  .8 

when  tax  lists  completed,  to  attach  warrants  thereto,       .  .  8 

warrants,  by  whom  signed,        .  .  .  .  .8 

warrants,  to  liave  corporate  seal,  etc. ,  .  .  .  8 

warrants,  to  be  directed  to  comptroller,  etc.,  .  .  .8 

nature  of  warrants,  .  .  .  .  .  8 

in  case  of  commencing  merchandising  after  April  1st,  party  to  make  out 

sworn  statement  of  probable  average  value,  .  .  9 

such  statement  to  be  delivered  to  commissioner  of  taxes,        •  .       9 

and  proportionate  amount  paid  to  collector,      .  .  .         9,  10 

similar  provisions  in  relation  to  corporations,  .  .  .10 

in  case  of  neglect  of  person,  firm  or  corporation  to  comply,  assessors  to 

assess,  and  add  ten  per  cent.,       .  .  .  .10 

in  case  of  omissions  to  assess  property,  arrearages  to  be  charged,  and  six 

per  cent,  interest,  .  .  .  .  .10 

COMMON   COUNCIL.     Division  of  city  into  assessment  districts  to  be   ap- 
proved by,     .  .  .  .  .  .  3,  4 

districting  subject  to  modification  or  alteration  only  on  a  three-fourths 

vote  of  all  aldermen  elected,  .  .  .  .4 

number  of  clerks  in  office  of  commissioner  of  taxes  to  be  limited  by 

council,         ......  4 

salaries  of  clerks  to  be  fixed  by  council,   .  .  .  .4 

to  appoint  one  assessor  for  each  division,  ...  4 

may  provide  other  and  further  penalties  than  those  provided  by  law,  in 

case  of  refusal  or  neglect  to  list  property,  ...  6 

on  completion  of  tax  list  shall,  by  ordinance  or  resolution,  levy  taxes,  .       8 
tax  commissioner  to  estimate  the  several  taxes  levied,  computing  them 

as  one  tax,  etc.,  .....  8 

to  have  power  to  modify  chap.  1,  so  as  to  perfect  assessments,  .       9 

provided  it  be  done  only  at  a  regular  meeting,  .  ,'     .  .  9 

and  after  due  publication,  .  .  .  .  .9 

and  only  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  all  aldermen  elected,     .  .  9 

if  vetoed  by  mayor,  then  to  require  three-fourths  of  all  aldermen  elected 

to  pass  over  veto,  .  .  .  .  .9 

to  make  assessments  for  improvements,  .  .  .  13 

to  provide  for  payment  for  certain  improvements  from  general  fund,      .     13 
may  levy  a  tax  for  certain  improvements,  .  .  .14 

may  impose  penalties  for  refusal  to  comply  with  requirements  as  to  im- 
provements,        .  .  .  .  .  .14 

in  case  of  improvement  being  ordered  after  passage  of  appropriation 

bill,  how  to  proceed,     .  .  .  .  •  .     14,  38 

have  power  to  borrow  money  and  issue  water  loan  bonds,      .  .     15 

authorized  to  borrow  monej'  in  certain  ca-es,    .  .  .15 

on  recommendation  may  increase  patrol  force,  .  .  .11 

but  only  on  a  three-fourths  vote,        .  .  .  .17 

salaries  of  board  of  police,  etc.,  to  be  concurred  in  by,  .  .17 

salaries  of  fire  department,  etc.,  to  be  concurred  in  by,    .  .  18 


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INDEX 


COMMON   GOXJ'S GIL  — continued. 

on  recommendation  of  board  of  underwriters,  to  appoint  additional  com- 
missioner of  board  of  police,               .                 .                 .  .20 

board  of  health  to  make  annual  statement  of  expenditures,  etc.,  to,           22 

may  levy  tax  to  pay  expenses  of,   .                .                .            .  .23 

may  order  money  to  be  borrowed  for  use  of  health  department  in  case 

of  pestilence,  etc.,         .                .                .                .     '  .            24 

Powers  of,  as  to  amendments,      .               .               .               .  '       .     24 

as  to  vacation  of  cemeteries,  .                .                .  .25 

as  to  extinguishing  of  titles  in,        .                 .                 .  .25 

as  to  purchasing  grounds  for,  and  erecting  city  hall,  .             25 

'           as  to  lexying  taxes  therefor,             .                .                .  i      .     25 

as  to  inspection  of  boilers,        .                 .                 ,  .25 

as  to  appropriation  for  4th  of  July,  etc.,        .                 .  .25 

as  to  time  and  speed  of  vessels  at  bridges,              ,  .            25 

as  to  construction  of  buildings,  etc.,              .                .  .25 

as  to  seizure  of  tainted  provisions,           .                 .  .25 

as  to  use  of  streets  by  horse  railways,            .                .  25,  26 

as  to  storage  of  gunpowder,  etc.,            .                .  .26 

as  to  halls,  churches,  etc.,              .                .                .  .26 

as  to  steam  whistles,                 .                .                ,  .26 

as  to  borrowing  money  for  sewerage  purposes,              .  .     26 

as  to  bridewell  grounds,           .                 .                 .  .21 

as  to  purcliase  of  other  grounds  for,               .                .  .27 

as  to  payment  for  same,            .                .                .         •  .            27 

as  to  rules  for  governing  same,        .                .                .  .27 

as  to  warden,  etc.,  of  same  furnishing  report,         .  .            27 

as  to  pounds  and  pound-lceepers,     .                .                 .  .27 

as  to  steam  dummies  on  street  railways,                 .  .             27 

as  to  rates  of  fare  on  street  railways,              .                .  27,  28 

as  to  speed,  etc.,      .                .                ...  28 

as  to  slaughtering  animals,               .                 .                 .  .28 

as  to  settlements  in  relation  to  changes  of  dock  lines,  .            28 

as  to  ordaining  laws,  etc.,               .                 .                 .  .28 

as  to  piling  lumber,  .                 .                 .                 .  .28 

as  to  approving  appointment  of  city  clerk's  deputies,  .     31 

as  to  confirming  city  clerk's  deputies,     .                .  .31 
as  to  schools,   .                 .                 .                 .                 .33,  34,  35 

as  to  dock  lines,        .....  36 

as  to  gas  lamps  and  gas  pipes,         v                .                .  .36 

as  to  water-pipes,     .                 .                 .                 .  .36 

as  to  general  improvements,             .                 .                 .  .37 

to  direct  the  board  of  public  works  to  let  street  cleaning,  .            26 

to  direct  the  board  of  health  to  let  scavengering,     .                .  .26 

to  regulate  or  prohibit  wearing  of  fire  or  other  arms,       .  .             27 

ordinances  and  orders  to  be  engrossed,  except  in  certain  cases,     .  31 

salary  of  clerk  to  be  fixed  by,     .                .                .                .  .31 

orders  and  ordinances  to  be  recorded  in  proper  books,     .  .            31 

and  transcripts  therefrom  to  be  evidence,                  .                .    .  .31 

ordinances  may  be  read  in  evidence,  .                .                .  .31 

resolutions  may  be  read  in  evidence,         .                 .                 .  .31 

orders  may  be  read  in  evidence,         .                .                .  .31 

by-laws  may  be  read  in  evidence,              .                .                .  .31 

without  proof  of  passage  or  publication  of  such  ordinances,  orders  or 

resolutions,  ......  32 

publication  to  be  only  prma /ac2e  evidence  of  passage  of,        .  .     32 

COMPTROLLER  to  sign  tax  warrants,                .                .                .  .8 

to  deliver  tax  lists  and  warrants  to  collector,     ...  8 

board  of  health  to  make  annual  statement  of  expenses  to,      .  .     23 

,          to  draw  warrants  on  treasury  to  defray  same,    .                .  .            23 


INDEX 


47 


CONTRACTS.     Aldermen  not  to  be  parties  to,  . 
officers  not  to  be  parties  to, 

DAMAGES,  for  injuries  caused  by  defective  sidewalks,     . 
for  injuries  caused  by  obstructions  on  sidewalks, 
as  to  judgments  therefor, 
in  case  of  non-resident  owners, 
release  may  be  had  on  filing  bonds,  etc.,  . 
bonds  to  be  approved  by  mayor, 
as  to  liability  for  damages  in  relation  to  contracts,  . 
for  injuries  from  carelessness,  etc.,  of  contractors, 

DOCK   LINES.     As  to  settlements  in  relation  to  changes  of, 
as  to  establishing  and  changing, 

ENG-ROSSING-.     Ordinances  and  orders  to  be  engrossed,  . 
except  in  certain  cases, 


FIRE   DEPARTMENT.     Fire  marshal  and  assistants,  how  appointed, 
fire  wardens,  who  shall  exercise  duties  of, 
fire  wardens,  powers  conferred  on, 
salaries  of  members  of  fire  department,  how  fixed, 
salaries  to  be  Avithin  certain  limits, 
•  board  of  police  authorized  to  establish  grades  in  office  of  assistant 

marshal,        ..... 
deputy  assistant  fire  marshals,  their  duties, 
repairs  of  engines,  powers  of  board  of  police  in  relation  to, 
repairs  of  fire  apparatus,  powers  of  board  of  police  in  relation  to, 
repairs  of  fire  alarm  telegraph,  powers  of  board  of  police  in  relation 
origin  of  fires,  board  of  police  to  inquire  into, 
additional  commissioner  of  board  of  police,  how  appointed,  duties 

salary  of,  etc.,  .... 

G-AS   LIGHTS.     Council  to  order  erection  of  gas  lamps,  .   •  .  .36 

council  to  order  laying  of  gas  pipes,  .  .  .  .36 

GUNPOWDER,  Etc.     As  to  storage  of,  .  .  .  .26 

HALTiS,  CHURCHES,  Etc.     As  to  means  of  egress  from,        .  .  26 

LAND   SURVEYORS,  appointed  by  board  of  public  works,  powers  of,  .     32 

LOANS.     Council  to  have  power  to  issue  water  loan  bonds,     .  .  15 

council  author  zed  to  borrow  money  in  certain  cases,  .  14,  15 

council  to  borrow  money  for  sewerage  purpose,       .         .  .  26 

MAYOR  to  appoint  commissioner  of  taxes, 

to  approve  bond  of  commissioner  of  taxes, 
,  to  approve  bonds  of  assessors,    . 

to  sign  tax  warrants,  . 

in  case  of  veto  of  amendments  to  or  modification  of  chap.  1  as  to  assess 
ments,  a  three-fourths  vote  to  be  required  to  pass  over  veto, 

to  appoint  commissioners  of  the  board  of  public  works, 

to  be  member  of  board  of  health, 

bonds  of  non-resident  owners  to  be  approved  by,    . 
OATHS.     Assessors  :to  take,  .... 

assessors  authorized  to  administer, 

commissioner  of  taxes  to  take, 

commissioner  of  taxes  authorized  to  administer, 

OFFICERS,  not  to  be  parties  to  contracts  with  city, 

ORDERS  to  be  engrossed  c:?eept  in  certain  cases, 
to  be  recorded  in  proper  books, 
originals  and  transcripts  may  be  read  in  evidence, 
without  proof  of  passage  or  publication, 
publication  only  prima  facie  evidence  of  publication, 


.     16 
16 

.     29 

29 

29,  30 

29,  3(1 

.     30 

30 

.     30 

31 

.      28 
36 

.     31 
31 

.     18 

18 

,     18 

18 

18,  19 

fire 

19 

.     19 

19 

.     19 

to,    19 

.     19 

of, 

20,  21 


9 

11 

21 

30 

4 

4 

3 

4 

16 

31 
31 
31 
32 
32 


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ORDINANCES  to  be  engrossed  except  in  certain  cases, 

to  be  recorded  in  proper  books,  .... 

originals  and  transcripts  may  be  read  in  evidence, 

without  proof  of  passage  or  publication, 

publication  only  prima  facie  evidence  of  passage, 
PERJURY.     Persons  guilty  of  false  swearing,  etc.,  in  relation  to  chap,  one, 
deemed  guilty  of  perjury,         .  .  . 

and  punished  accordingly,         .  .  .  .  , 

POUNDS    AND   POUND-KEEPERS.     As  to  establishing  and  appointing, 
PRINTING-.    Proceedings,  notices  and  ordinances  to  be  published  in  German 
newspaper,  ..... 

and  in  corporation  newspaper,  .  .  .  .  . 

PROVISIONS,  Etc.     As  to  tainted  provisions,  etc., 
PUBLIC  PARKS.     Land  to  be  added  to  Lincoln  Park,     .  .    . 

how  to  be  acquired,  ..... 

REFORM   SCHOOL.     Warrants  for  commitment,  how  made  out,  etc., 

parents  and  guardians,  privileges  of,  in  relation  to, 

commissioner,  powers  of,  in  whom  vested, 

who  are  subjects  for  commitment,     .  . 

conditions  of  commitment,         .  .  .  . 

fees  connected  with  commitment,     .... 
RESOLUTIONS  may  be  read  in  evidence, 

without  proof  of  passage  or  publication, 

publication  only  prima  facie  evidence  of  passage,    . 
SALARIES.     Of  commissioner  of  taxes  to  be  fixed  in  appropriation  bill, 

of  iissessors  to  be  fixed  in  appropriation  bill, 

of  clerks  in  office  of  commissioner  of  taxes  to  be  fixed  by  council, 

of  board  of  police  to  be  concurred  in  by  council,  . 

of  fire  department  to  be  concurred  in  by  council, 

of  board  of  health,  how  fixed, 

of  fire  department,  how  fixed, 

of  city  clerk,  how  fixed, 

of  superintendent  of  schools,  how  fixed, 

SCHOOLS.     As  to  erection,  purchase,  hire  and  repair  of. 

as  to  buying  and  leasing  sites, 

as  to  furnishing. 

as  to  establishing,  supporting  and  maintaining, 

as  to  division  of  city  into  school  districts, 

as  to  tax  for  school  purposes, 

as  to  salary  of  superintendent, 

as  to  issue  of  school  bonds, 

as  to  collegiate  degrees, 

as  to  clerk  of  board  of  education, 

as  to  evening  schools, 
SLAUGHTERING.     As  to  slaughtering  animals, 
steam' BOILERS,  Etc.     As  to  inspection  of, 
STEAM   WHISTLES.     As  to  the  blowing  of, 
STREET   RAILWAYS.     As  to  use  of  streets  by, 

as  to  use  of  dummies  thereon, 

as  to  rates  of  fare  on  dummies, 

as  to  speed  of  dummies, 
VACANCIES.     How  filled, 
VESSELS.     As  to  time  and  speed  of,  at  bridges, 
VETOES.     How  controlled, 
WATER  SUPPLIES.     Council  to  cause  laying  of  water  pipes, 


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